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2. Bid-ask spread: What it is and how it works - AOL

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   For example, if a stock price has a bid price of $100 and an ask price of $100.05, the bid-ask spread would be $0.05. The spread can also be expressed as a percentage of the ask price, which in ...

3. Bid–ask spread - Wikipedia

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   The bid–ask spread (also bid–offer or bid/ask and buy/sell in the case of a market maker) is the difference between the prices quoted (either by a single market maker or in a limit order book) for an immediate sale and an immediate purchase for stocks, futures contracts, options, or currency pairs in some auction scenario.

4. Bid price - Wikipedia

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   A bid price is the highest price that a buyer (i.e., bidder) is willing to pay for some goods. It is usually referred to simply as the "bid". In bid and ask, the bid price stands in contrast to the ask price or "offer", and the difference between the two is called the bid–ask spread. An unsolicited bid or purchase offer is when a person or ...

5. Market maker - Wikipedia

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   The income of a market maker is the difference between the bid price, the price at which the firm is willing to buy a stock, and the ask price, the price at which the firm is willing to sell it. It is known as the market-maker spread, or bid–ask spread. Supposing that equal numbers of buy and sell orders arrive and the price never changes ...

6. How To Buy Stocks in 5 Easy Steps - AOL

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   Ask. The lowest price at which you are willing to buy a stock. Bid. The highest price at which you are willing to sell a stock. Close. The last trading price of a stock at the end of the market day.

7. Ask price - Wikipedia

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   In the context of stock trading on a stock exchange, the ask price is the lowest price a seller of a stock is willing to accept for a share of that given stock.For over-the-counter stocks, the asking price is the best-quoted price at which a market maker is willing to sell a stock.

8. Call options: Learn the basics of buying and selling - AOL

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   The appeal of buying call options is that they drastically magnify a trader’s profits, as compared to owning the stock directly. With the same initial investment of $200, a trader could buy 10 ...

9. Order (exchange) - Wikipedia

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   For example, if a stock is asked for $86.41 (large size), a buy order with a limit of $90 can be filled right away. Similarly, if a stock is bid $86.40, a sell order with a limit of $80 will be filled right away. A limit order may be partially filled from the book and the rest added to the book.