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When purchasing securities in a cash account, remember that stocks have a two-business-day settlement period from trade date to settlement date. During that time, proceeds from a sale are considered unsettled funds.

When securities are sold, however, the cash is not instantly available. There is a settlement period of up to two days for most stocks, mutual funds, and ETFs; bonds typically have a slightly longer settlement period.

For most stock trades, settlement occurs two business days after the day the order executes, or T+2 (trade date plus two days). For example, if you were to execute an order on Monday, it would typically settle on Wednesday. For some products, such as mutual funds, settlement occurs on a different timeline.

Since a trade held less than two days in a cash account requires settled funds to avoid a good faith violation, it may become necessary to wait at least two days between trades so that the day trades or short-term trades may be executed using settled funds only.

What Is the Settlement Period? In the securities industry, the trade settlement period refers to the time between the trade date?month, day, and year that an order is executed in the market?and the settlement date?when a trade is considered final.

You guessed it: Settled funds are basically the inverse of unsettled funds. Proceeds from selling a security become settled funds after the settlement period has ended. Similarly, cash you deposit or wire into your brokerage account to use for trading is considered settled.

What is the new T+1 settlement cycle? T+1 means that trade-related settlements must be done within one day of the transaction's completion. Trades on Indian stock exchanges are currently settled in two working days after the transaction is completed (T+2).