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Stock is considered purchased or sold for tax purposes on its trade date, when the trade is made, rather than on its settlement date, when the stock is delivered and payment is made. There is a gap between the trade date and the settlement date, with the trade date coming first.

It depends. It takes a few days before cash deposits hit or settle on your brokerage account. If you purchased the shares with settled funds, you are free to sell at any time. If you bought the shares with unsettled funds, you can't sell them until the funds have settled.

For bank certificates of deposit (CDs) and commercial paper, the settlement date is the same day as the trade or transaction date2.

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.

The settlement date is the date on which a trade is final, when the buyer pays the seller and the seller delivers cleared assets to the buyer. The settlement arose to deal with the complex process of clearing a transaction but has since been reduced to as little as two business days (T+2) through the use of technology.

What's the difference between trade date and settlement date? The trade date is when an investor initiates a buy or sell order, and the settlement date is when ownership of the underlying security is actually transferred. That generally happens two business days after the trade date (also called T+2).