Limit Order
In trading, a limit order is an order to buy or sell securities for a fixed price or better.
Limit Order
A Limit Order is any order given to a stock broker which places limits or conditions on a trade. In other words the investor is not allowing the broker the discretion to place their order at the current market price.
Limit order
A limit order is one that is given with a price limit.
An investor wishing to buy or sell securities places a limit order for a certain number of shares at a certain price.
Limit order book
A record of unexecuted limit orders that is maintained by the specialist. These orders are
treated equally with other orders in terms of priority of execution.
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Limit Order - Order to execute a trade at a specific price is referred to as a limit order. A limit order can help the trader avoid buying or selling a stock at a higher or lower price than they wanted to.
limit order
instruction to execute an order for a stock only at a specified price or better. The broker continues the order until a specified date or until the customer terminates it.
Limit Order
A client's order to buy or sell a security at a specific price or a better price offer.
It represents the maximum price a client is willing to buy a security, and the minimum price a client is willing to accept as a seller.
A buy limit order can only be executed at the limit price or lower, a sell limit order at the limit price or higher. The disadvantage is that it may never be executed as market prices may rapidly exceed the limit before it can be filled.
In other words, if you say to your broker, "Pay up to six quid for LloydsTSB shares", you're specifying the maximum price you're willing to pay, or setting a limit order.
Limit order book
Definition: [crh] A record of unexecuted limit orders maintained by the specialist. These ordersDefinition: /A are treated equally with other orders in terms of priority of execution.
Buy Limit Order
Buy Limit Order definition :
A conditional trading order that indicates a security may be purchased only at the designated price or lower. Related: Sell limit order.
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Buy limit order
A conditional trading order that indicates a security may be purchased only at the designated price or lower. ...
Limit orders
One of the first mistakes one makes when investing is using limit orders instead of market orders.
Limit Order
Order that sets a specific price (Limit Price) that is the highest a buyer will pay or the lowest a seller wants to receive. Buyer will accept price lower than limit and seller higher than limit.
Limit order:
An order placed with a broker to buy or sell at a price as good or better than the specified limit price.
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Limit Order
This is for placing a sell request when the price is either exactly the same or is above a specified limit price.
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Limit Order: An order to buy a security at or below the current market price, or to sell it above or at the current market price.
Limit order
An order that specifies the minimum price at which you want to sell, or the maximum price at which you want to buy.
Limit price
The maximum or minimum price at which you are wiling to buy or sell specified shares.
Limit Order
An order to be executed at a specified price.
Liquidity
Ease with which a security can be traded on the market.
Limit Order: When you tell your broker to try to buy or sell at a certain price, e.g. sell at the best price but no less than X.
Limit order. An order to buy or sell a stated amount of a security at a price equal to or better than the limit price.
Limit order
A limit order sets the maximum you will pay for a security or the minimum you are willing to accept on a particular transaction.
Limit Order
An investor's order to execute a security trade only at a specified price or better.
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Limit Order
A buy or sell order only at a price that you specify (the Limit) or better.
Liquidity
A security is said to be liquid when investors can easily buy and sell the security, as a result of an abundance of buyers and sellers.
LIMIT ORDER: An order to buy or sell at a specified (or better) price.
LIQUID ASSET: Cash or a marketable security easily converted into cash.
limit order: A market order to buy at a given price or lower, or an order to sell at a given price or higher.
line of credit: An open-ended arrangement for a company to borrow and repay debt at its discretion, subject only to a maximum limit.
Limit Order When you instruct your broker to buy or sell a given security at a specific price.
Limited Liability Limitation of a shareholder's losses to the amount invested.
Limit order
An order to buy a stock at or below a specified price, or to sell a stock at or above a specified price.
Limit order: An order to buy or sell subject to some limitation as to price.
Liquid assets: Cash or assets easily convertible to cash, such as Treasury bills, money market fund shares, or demand deposits.
Limit Order
An order to buy or sell a stated amount of a security at a specified price, or better if obtainable, after the order is represented on the floor of the stock exchange. (See also Market Order).
Limit Order: An order to buy or sell securities that specifies a trade should be made only at a certain price or better.
Liquidity: The quality of an asset that lets it be converted quickly into cash without a significant loss of value.
Limit order
A limit order is an order to buy or sell securities on the stock market at a specified or better price.
See also market order.
Stop Limit Order
This order is similar to a stop order, but it becomes a limit order instead of a market order when the price is reached or passed. Buy stop limit orders are entered above the current market; sell stops are extended below it.
STOP LIMIT ORDER " A stop order which becomes a limit order after the specified stop price has been reached.
Stop-Limit Order. An order to buy or sell a security at a certain price or better, only after it has reached the specified price.
Stop-Loss. An order to sell a security if it drops below the current market price.
Stop limit order - A stop order that becomes a limit order after the specified stop price has been reached. (See: Limit Order, Stop Order) ...
Stop-limit order
A stop-limit is a combination order that instructs your broker to buy or sell a stock once its price hits a certain target, known as the stop price, but not to pay more for the stock, or sell it for less, than a specific amount, ...
Limit Order
A request to buy or sell a security only at a price that you specify (the Limit) or better.
Limit order to buy or to sell, or a stop limit order to sell that is not to be reduced by the amount of an ordinary cash dividend on the ex-dividend date. A "
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Limit order
When you give your broker an order to buy or sell a stock when it reaches a certain price or better, it is called a limit order.
Limit Order
An order that instructs a broker to buy or sell a specified amount of a security at a specified price or at a better price. In the case of a buy, it will never be executed above the limit price.
Limit orders should also generally be used when you are more ambivalent about making the trade. For example you think that XYZ is a probably a reasonable buy at $28 but you are a bit uncertain.
Limit orders are useful when you have decided on the price at which you are willing to trade. They guarantee that you will not buy a stock for more than the limit price or sell at less than the limit price, provided that your order is executed.
Limit Order
An order instructing a broker to execute an order at a specific price or better. Buy orders are executed at or below limit price. Sell orders are executed at or above limit price.
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Limit Order
This is a designation an investor places on an order to buy or sell.
LIMIT ORDER
A contingent order for an options or futures trade specifying a
certain maximum (or minimum) price, beyond which the order
(buy or sell) is not to be executed.
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This is a client's order to buy or sell a security at a specific price. The order can be executed only at that price or a better one.
Limit Order Information System - LOIS
An electronic system used by specialists in the stock market. A limit order information system lists price and size quotes for exchange-listed securities.
A limit order to buy or sell a security that requires all or part of the order to be executed immediately. Any part of the order that is not executed, is automatically canceled. An IOC order is usually for a significant share quantity.
A limit order specifies the price at which to buy or sell a stock. Buy limit orders are entered below the current market price, and sell limit orders are entered above the current market price. If the limit price is "hit" then the trade is executed.
Stop limit order: A combination of a limit order and stop order. It's a request to buy or sell a specific stock at the market price, but only when the stock reaches or exceeds a price that you specify (called the stop price).
Sell limit order Conditional trading order that indicates that a, may be sold at the designated price or higher. Related: ...
See also: Limit Order, Market Order, Order, Stop Order
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Market or limit order to sell a stated amount of stock provided that the price to be obtained is not lower than the last sale if the last sale was a plus, or zero plus tick, ...
sell limit order A mandate to a broker to sell a specified quantity of a security at or above a specified price (called the limit price). sell order Specific instructions made by an individual to a broker, bank, market maker,...
Stop-limit order A stop order that designates a price limit. Unlike the stop order, which becomes a market order once the stop is reached, the stop-limit order becomes a limit order.
Stop-limit Order
An order to buy or sell that goes into force as soon as there is a trade at the specified price. The order, however, can be filled only at t...(Read more)
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STP LMT - See Stop Limit order.
Straddle - Is an option strategy where the near- or at-the-money put and call are combined to form a position. The straddle can be long (purchased) or short (sold).
Too many market orders of one kind -- to buy or to sell or limit orders to buy up or sell down, without matching orders of the opposite kind.
See: Limit order. Market order go-along/participating Used for listed equity securities. See: Percentage order.
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