Is the completion of a buy or sell of a market/object/instrument. Execution happens after the trader communicates to the broker and the broker fills the trade in full in the market. There are legal requirements in many jurisdictions regarding execution, often requiring that the broker fill the trade at the best price possible for the client. In reality this can be quite difficult to monitor and indeed police with regard to both negligence and indeed malice. This is made exponentially more difficult when dealing with market makers. In light of these facts we at the Academy of Financial Trading find and assess the real barriers us traders face and address them through the styles of trading deployed accepting the industry and how it exists at present.