Selling shares from your Schwab Equity Award account
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Onscreen title page text: Selling shares from your Schwab Equity Award account
An illustration of a woman looking at her phone while relaxing in a park.
Screen display moves to the Equity Awards account Summary page.
Narrator (off screen): When you're ready to sell shares held in your Equity Award Account, click Sell Shares from the Quick Links menu. (Hand icon hovers over Sell Shares in the Quick Links menu.)
Screen display moves to the All-in-One Trade Ticket page.
Narrator: Ensure your Equity Award Center account is selected in the blue account box. (Arrow icon hovers at blue account box.)
Narrator: Select your company ticker symbol and click Continue. (Arrow icon hovers at ticker symbol and then at green Continue box.)
Narrator: Select the action to Sell shares and then identify the type of shares you want to sell. (Arrow points to Sell shares area.)
Narrator: Next, designate your order type. (Arrow points to Market & Limit boxes.)
Text overlay in blue box: Market orders sell shares at the best price available when the order reaches the marketplace.
Narrator: Market orders sell shares at the best price available when the order reaches the marketplace.
Text overlay in blue box: Limit orders allow you to set the lowest price at which your shares can be sold.
Narrator: Limit orders allow you to set the lowest price at which your shares can be sold.
Narrator: You can then choose the specific shares you want to sell and enter the quantity by lot. (Arrow points to share quantity area.)
Narrator: And click Review Order (Arrow points to Review Order box.)
Screen display moves to Review and Place Order Screen.
Narrator: Verify that everything is correct and place your order. (Arrow points to green Place Order box.)
Narrator: No commissions are charged when you place the order on the Schwab website or the Schwab mobile app.
Screen display moves to Summary page.
Narrator: If you are a U.S. resident or have a full-featured international account, cash proceeds will settle in your Schwab brokerage account on the business day after the trade is executed.
If you have a limited-purpose international account, the cash will settle in your Equity Award account on the business day after the trade is executed. (The hand icon hovers over the Support drop down menu.)
Narrator: Still have questions or want help entering the trade order? You can chat or find the phone number to call us under this Support menu.
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