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Order
OrderInstruction to a broker-dealer to buy, sell, deliver, or receive securities or commodities that commits the issuer of the "order" to the terms specified. RELATED TERMS-------------------------------------- Buy To purchase an asset; taking a long position. Deliver The sale of a futures or forward contract may require the seller to deliver the commodity during the delivery month, if the short position is not offset prior to that time. Securities Saleable papers, traded on stock exchanges, that yield an income (dividend, interest, etc.). Issuer A financial institution or other organization responsible for supplying credit cards, debit accounts, checks, electronic tokens, and so on. SIMILAR TERMS-------------------------------------- Ordef, S.A.SICAV Ordef, S.A.SICAV is a Spanish company listed at Madrid Stock Exchange. Its business activity is capital investment. Order book The automated trading system introduced in 1997 for the largest companies quoted on the London Stock Exchange. Order Book Official 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. Order driven An auction market where prices are determined by the publication of orders to buy or sell shares. Order flow The directing of orders by a brokerage to different parties to be executed. 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 parameter In a nonlinear dynamic system, a variable-acting link a macro variable, or combination of variables-that summarizes the individual variables that can affect a system. Order room The brokerage firm department receives and processes all orders to buy and sell securities. Order splitting Breaking up orders so that they can be processed as small orders for execution by SOES. Prohibited by NASD. Order ticket A form detailing an order instruction that a customer gives an account executive. Ordering costs Costs that occur when an order is placed regardless of the size of the order. Ordering rules The order in which Roth IRA assets are distributed. Orderly market Any market in which the supply and demand are reasonably equal. Ordesa Investments, SICAV, S.A. Ordesa Investments, SICAV, S.A. is a Spanish company listed at Madrid Stock Exchange. Its business activity is capital investment. PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS-------------------------------------- Options on physicals Interest rate options written on fixed income securities, as opposed to those written on futures contracts. Options Price Reporting Authority A committee of representatives from participating exchanges responsible for providing last-sale options quotations and information from the participating exchanges. Or better Used in the context of general equities. Indication on the order ticket of a limit order to buy or sell securities at a price better than the specified limit price if a better price can be obtained. Oracle of Omaha A nickname for Warren Buffett, who is arguably one of the greatest investors of all time. Oral contract A contract not recorded on paper or on computer, but made vocally which is usually enforceable. Order Order book The automated trading system introduced in 1997 for the largest companies quoted on the London Stock Exchange. Order Book Official 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. Order driven An auction market where prices are determined by the publication of orders to buy or sell shares. Order flow The directing of orders by a brokerage to different parties to be executed. 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. We thank you for using the Financial Dictionary to search for Order. If you have a better definition for Order than the one presented here, please let us know by making use of the suggest a term option. This definition of Order may be disputed by other professionals. Our attempt is to provide easy definitions on Order and any other medical topic for the public at large.
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