Dry run and live trading: the three switches

A dry run sends nothing

A dry run is a practice order. Finmind records it and nothing is sent to your broker. It is the default, so a new Finmind account cannot place a real order by accident.

What must be on for a live buy

A live buy needs three things, and they do not work alike. The plan decides whether you may buy at all. The two switches decide whether the order is real or a dry run.

1. Finmind's live trading switch. Finmind turns it on for the whole site. You cannot change it.
2. Your own switch. Open Settings, then Live trading, and choose Turn on live trading. Finmind asks for your Finmind password and, when two-factor sign-in is on, a current code. Turning it off asks for nothing.
3. Essentials, or a higher plan. Buying is an Essentials tool. A buy without it is refused and is not recorded as a dry run: the ticket opens as sell-only.

With the plan, an order is a dry run until both switches are on. A sell needs only the two switches, and no plan.

One more thing applies. Live orders go out only while the exchange is open (09:30 to 16:00 Tashkent time, Monday to Friday).

Sell and cancel without Essentials

Without Essentials you can still sell what you hold and cancel your orders. The ticket opens as sell-only and says "You can sell what you hold and cancel your orders. Buying needs Essentials." You can also read your order history and your broker's open orders, and size a sell. Only buying is locked.

What Finmind never does

• From the order ticket, nothing is sent until you review and confirm it. An automation you switch on yourself places its orders without asking again.
• It is not a broker. Every order goes through your own fondbozori.uz brokerage account, over one fixed route.
• It does nothing automatic on real money unless you switched that automation on yourself, within firm limits. Automatic live AI trading is closed: see What AI trading does and never does.

Source: the Finmind order ticket and Settings, read on 8 November 2026.