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Market orders
noun
Plural of market order
Exact(60)
Market orders, placed at the best available price, can be too risky in the fast-moving age of electronic trading.
Market orders, in which an investor pays the prevailing market price, are more common and used to buy or sell a stock at any price.
"Market orders", which ask for a stock to be sold at the best available price without specifying a minimum as opposed to "limit orders", which set a floor are also coming under fire.
Market orders grant the executing firm a slam-dunk shot at pocketing a retail spread.
Market orders are executed immediately at the prevailing price.
Market orders are common when the price of a stock is falling.
Moreover, by including both market orders and marketable limit orders (marketable limit orders are limit buy orders above the ask quote or limit sell orders below the bid), all traders demanding immediacy in execution are included.
By including both market orders and marketable limit orders, all traders demanding immediacy in execution are included in our order imbalance measure.
And so, some exchanges don't even allow market orders.
Until and even after they are established, state administered market orders are all about process.
But in times of volatility, market orders can be a good way to overpay to buy stocks.
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