As the selling accelerated Thursday in the computer-driven frenzy, those orders were filled at prices that might have once seemed implausible.
My mom held onto this wild idea that the real gritty sentiment at the core of love, love for the mothers of the world, those who do the work of mothering, and true love itself, should be threaded throughout the days of our weeks, months and years rather than artificially packaged into a day filled with price-fixed brunches and dashed dreams.
The new iPod still has the same 4-inch Retina display you'll find on the existing iPod touch and the iPhone, but it only comes in one color, black and silver, and it replaces the 16GB fourth generation leftover which Apple had offered since introducing the fifth-generation touch, presumably to fill the price gap between it and the 32GB $299 model of that lineup.
Selling a large position in a market place normally depresses the market if sold in a short period of time, which would result in poor filling prices.
(Tip: beware the deals that require you to pay for a full tank of petrol in advance – their "in-house" fuel prices can be 50% more than filling station prices).
The commission could simply announce that if orders from retail investors and small institutions are filled at ridiculous prices — defined as prices not consistent with the real market absent flash-crash craziness — it is the responsibility of the broker that handed the order to make the customer whole.
Under laws adopted in an era of slower paperwork and more primitive technology, funds are priced once a day, typically at 4 p.m., and all orders received before the deadline are filled at that price.
About a fifth of the time prices rose but more spaces filled up, or prices fell but fewer people parked.
"Everything was either already filled or the price range was too high," Tom Massaro said.
NASD proposed that on the first day of trading no broker be allowed to accept market orders, which can be filled at any price.
The bottom two rows of the banking committee have been filled at a price of tens of millions of dollars.
