390 Order Count Monitoring
The 390 Order Count Monitoring page tracks your orders against the 390 Professional Orders Rule threshold, so active autotraders are never surprised by a professional designation. The rule is applied one calendar month at a time, so your month-to-date average is the number to watch.
What the 390 rule is
Many options and equity exchanges classify a retail trader as a professional when their order volume averages 390 or more orders per trading day, and brokers enforce that classification. Professional designation can mean losing retail order priority and price improvement, and some brokers charge professionals for real-time market data or restrict their accounts.
The limit is measured per calendar month. Each month your orders across all of your accounts at a broker are divided by that month's trading days, and the result is compared to 390. A single month at or above that average is enough to flag the account — a quiet month elsewhere does not average it back down, because the months are never blended together.
The review cycle is monthly as well, and the designation lags by one month. Effective July 1, 2026, brokers review customer activity within five days after the end of each calendar month. A month over the limit means your orders are marked professional for the next calendar month, and only that month — the designation lapses on its own once a month lands back under. So a single heavy month no longer costs you a full quarter of professional status, but it does mean the month that sets your status today is last month, while the month in progress sets next month's.
Open the monitoring page
From the Tracking menu, choose Order Count Calendar under Trades, or go to /trading/order-counts. A collapsible explainer at the top of the page covers the rule in more detail, with a link to the exchange circular.
Read your counts
Each broker gets a summary card at the top of the page. Month avg/day is the figure the rule is actually applied to, and it turns red once it reaches your threshold. Monthly Left is how many more orders you can place before this month goes over: the month's trading days multiplied by 390, minus what you have already placed. Below those, This month and Last month are raw totals, and This quarter is running context only — the rule is never applied to a quarter total.
The Monthly Designation Status card shows the last three months, each measured against 390 on its own, and its banner tells you two separate things: whether you are marked professional right now (which last month's average decides) and whether the month in progress is on pace to designate you next month. The current month is marked in progress and updates as the month fills in.
Use Select Broker/Month to Review to pick which broker and calendar month you are checking. The page then shows that broker's monthly orders and a Filled Orders by Bot breakdown attributing filled orders to the bot or strategy that placed them.
Canceled, rejected, and expired orders still count toward the rule even though they never filled, and manual orders placed directly at your broker cannot be attributed to a bot. Those appear separately as Unattributed or Canceled so the totals stay honest.
Set up threshold alerts
Open the Order Count Monitoring Settings on the page to choose alert thresholds, measured in orders per day. The daily threshold compares today's count, while the monthly threshold compares your month-to-date average — the figure the rule is applied to, and so the one worth setting carefully. You can be alerted on screen, by email, or both as you approach a threshold.
