Significant order imbalance
Definition: [crh] A large number of buy or sell orders for a stock that cause an abnormally wide spread betweenDefinition: bid and offer prices, ...
Order imbalance
An order imbalance occurs when there are substantially more buy orders in a particular security than there are sell orders, or the reverse. The result is a wide spread between bid and ask prices.
Order imbalance
Orders of one kind for a stock not offset by the opposite orders, which causes a wide spread between bid and offer prices.
Order Imbalance
A situation resulting from an excess of buy or sell orders for a specific security on a trading exchange, making it impossible to match the buyers' and sellers' orders.
A characterization of market conditions whereby there is excessive volatility at a time when there is no news. The volatility is often causedby order imbalances. In some markets, shorts trying to cover can cause disorderly conditions.
By maintaining an offering price sufficiently higher than their buying price, these firms are compensated for the risk involved in allowing their inventory of securities to act as a buffer against temporary order imbalances.
The exchange employee in charge of keeping a book of public limit orders on exchanges utilizing the "marker-maker" system, as opposed to the "specialist system", of executing orders. See also Market-Marker and Specialist.
Order imbalance ...
order imbalance A case in which buy orders for a specific security outnumber sell orders, or... order ticket A form completed by a Registered Representative of a brokerage, upon the receipt... ordinance A local law or edict.
 See also: Sell order, Expense, Saving, Limit Order, Bills
  
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