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Order




Order

Instruction to a broker-dealer to buy, sell, deliver, or receive securities or commodities that commits the issuer of the "order" to the terms specified.

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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.



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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.



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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.

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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.

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