Why a rejected order does not appear in the order book on Zerodha

Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A rejected order is absent from the Kite order book because Zerodha added a pre-trade validation layer that rejects a non-qualifying order before it is sent to the exchange, and an order that never reached the exchange has no row in the order book; its rejection reason instead appears in the order status notification on Kite. This is the documented behaviour for orders blocked by Zerodha’s own checks, and it is why a trader who rejected an order seconds ago cannot find it under the Orders tab.

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Why a rejected order does not appear in the order book on Zerodha