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2. After-hours trading: What it is and how it works - AOL

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   Bid-ask spread and after-hours trading. During the normal trading day, brokers must ensure customers the best price known as the National Best Bid and Offer (NBBO), but this requirement doesn’t ...

3. Market data - Wikipedia

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   The market data for a particular instrument would include the identifier of the instrument and where it was traded such as the ticker symbol and exchange code plus the latest bid and ask price and the time of the last trade. It may also include other information such as volume traded, bid, and offer sizes and static data about the financial ...

4. Market maker - Wikipedia

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   A market maker or liquidity provider is a company or an individual that quotes both a buy and a sell price in a tradable asset held in inventory, hoping to make a profit on the difference, which is called the bid–ask spread or turn. [1] This stabilizes the market, reducing price variation by setting a trading price range for the asset.

5. 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.

6. Order (exchange) - Wikipedia

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   A mid-price order is an order whose limit price is continually set at the average of the "best bid" and "best offer" prices in the market. The values of the bid and offer prices used in this calculation may be either a local or national best bid and offer. They are also called Peg-to-Midpoint.

7. Financial quote - Wikipedia

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   For instance, if a trader submits a limit order to buy 1,000 shares of MSFT at $28.00, this order will appear in a market maker for MSFT's book with a bid of $28.00 and a bid size of 1000. The difference between the bid and ask price is known as the bid–ask spread.