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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.
Because of this, active traders in particular may want to pay attention to the bid-ask spread. For example, if a stock price has a bid price of $100 and an ask price of $100.05, the bid-ask spread ...
In securities trading, an order book contains the list of buy orders and the list of sell orders. For each entry it must keep among others, some means of identifying the party (even if this identification is obscured, as in a dark pool), the number of securities and the price that the buyer or seller are bidding/asking for the particular security.
Order flow trading is the process of analysing the flow of trades being placed by other traders on a specific market. [2] This is done by watching the Order Book and also footprint charts. [2] Order flow analysis allows traders to see what type of orders are being placed at a certain time in the market, e.g. the amount of Buy and Sell orders at ...
It is a transparent system that matches customer orders (e.g. bids and offers) on a 'price time priority' basis. The highest ("best") bid order and the lowest ("cheapest") offer order constitutes the best market or "the touch" in a given security or swap contract. Customers can routinely cross the bid/ask spread to effect immediate execution.
A Trump win could fuel a long-term buying opportunity in Chinese stocks, according to one stock chief. In commodities, bonds, and crypto: West Texas Intermediate crude oil dipped 1% to $71.03 a ...
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 ...
Friday was an abbreviated trading day, with stocks closing at 1 p.m. ET and the bond market an hour later. The S&P 500 rose 0.6% while the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 0.4%.