Market price protection on the Kite order window

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

Market protection on the Kite order window is a Zerodha feature that fills a market order quickly at the best available price but converts it into a limit order if the price moves outside a set protection range, so a market order cannot fill at a freak price far from the last traded price. A freak trade is an execution at a price far above or below the prevailing market, usually caused by a thin order book or a fat-finger order; market protection caps how far from the current price a market order is allowed to fill.

Why the GTT trigger email price differs from the execution price

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

The price shown in a GTT (Good Till Triggered) trigger email is the trigger price, the level the last traded price touched to activate the order. It is not the price your order filled at. A GTT does not buy or sell at the trigger; it places a regular limit order at a separate limit price when the trigger is hit, and that limit order fills at the limit price or the prevailing market within it. The gap between the email price and the price you actually got is the difference between “when the order was sent” and “at what price it filled”.

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Market price protection on the Kite order window

Why the GTT trigger email price differs from the execution price