Placing a block order

You can specify per order whether a specific order should be executed straight-through (normal order processing) or whether the order should be added to a corresponding block order. This allows for maximum flexibility and seamless integration of multiple investment products via the Investment API.

Prerequisites

We recommend reading the Orders introduction and Block order introduction.

The 'Block orders' feature is not activated by default. If you want to activate it, please contact your Account Manager.

To execute orders as block orders via Upvest, you must first set one (or multiple) daily cut-off time(s) at which you want your orders to be executed. You must then notify us of the defined cut-off time(s) via your Account Manager.

How to place a block order

After the configuration of the cut-off time, you can place a block order with the following request:

POST /orders

In the request body, specify "execution_flow": "BLOCK".

Example request

{
  "user_id": "2dedfeb0-58cd-44f2-ae08-0e41fe0413d9",
  "account_id": "debf2026-f2da-4ff0-bb84-92e45babb1e3",
  "side": "BUY",
  "client_reference": "My order",
  "instrument_id": "IE00B95PGT31",
  "instrument_id_type": "ISIN",
  "currency": "EUR",
  "order_type": "MARKET",
  "quantity": "10",
  "execution_flow": "BLOCK"
}

It is only possible to send market orders with the execution flow BLOCK. Both unit and nominal orders are supported.