I can't say I know everything about the underlying details, but from what I understand, your limit buy adds to the bid side of open orders, and one possibility is that someone placed a market order to sell when
the bid price for the stock fell to $ 10 which was matched to your open limit order.
Not exact matches
The private - equity firm will pay $ 157 a share in cash
for Buffalo Wild Wings, which is 34 % above the company's closing
stock price on November 13, the day before Roark's initial
bid of $ 150 a share.
That may explain why Japan's Suntory jumped ahead of a number of European suitors, including France's Pernod Ricard, to
bid for Beam last month — offering to pay Beam stockholders $ 83.50 per share, a 25 % premium over the
stock's then - market
price of around $ 67, in addition to assuming some $ 2.4 billion in company debt.
Franken also took on Representative Tom
Price, Trump's nominee
for the Department of Health and Human Services,
for owning shares in tobacco companies while voting to do their
bidding in Congress and
for getting a «sweetheart deal» on biotech
stock.
The recent
stock market and real estate bubbles are much like pyramid schemes in the sense that what is
bidding up
stock and property
prices is an exponential inflow of new money from pension plans and mutual funds (
for shares) and bank credit (
for real estate).
Even if an ETF has no buyers or sellers
for several hours, the
bid and ask
prices continue to move in correlation with the market value of the ETF, which is derived from the
prices of individual underlying
stocks.
For instance, stocks with relatively safe dividends, such as utilities, have been heavily bought and bid up in price amid the investor search for inco
For instance,
stocks with relatively safe dividends, such as utilities, have been heavily bought and
bid up in
price amid the investor search
for inco
for income.
In connection with this offering, the underwriters may engage in stabilizing transactions, which involves making
bids for, purchasing and selling shares of Class A common
stock in the open market
for the purpose of preventing or retarding a decline in the market
price of the Class A common
stock while this offering is in progress.
Using daily
bid, ask and closing
prices for all
stocks included in the S&P 1500 during January 1990 (supporting initial pair trades in January 1991) through December 2014, she finds that: Keep Reading
Information obtained
for over-the-counter funds are usually handled via telephone or a computer network, obtaining
prices and information directly... But OTC funds usually trade in frequent because of the instability of the company and its funds, which make the
bid - ask spread so much larger the
stocks traded on an exchange
«By the end of July 1932 - the month the Dow Jones Industrials bottomed out - 80 % of all NYSE
stocks in the bottom decile had
bid prices less than or equal to $ 1 per share, while the
bid - ask spread
for these
prices averaged 135 % of the
bid price (e.g.,
bid 1/2, ask 1-1/8).
As long as the loans are used to
bid up property,
stock and bond
prices, they can claim that they are «responding to the market» by getting homeowners, commercial real estate investors, corporate raiders and financial managers to pledge their assets as collateral
for yet new loans in a process that seems to be self - sustaining.
A Securities and Exchange Commission requirement that brokers guarantee their clients the highest
bid or lowest offer
price when buying and selling
stocks for their clients.
The arrival of a takeover
bid is usually welcome news
for shares
prices; Treasury Wine Estates
stock soared 18 per cent when the company rejected a
bid from KKR.
For in the money (ITM) options, time premium is call strike plus the call
bid minus the current
stock price.
With little liquidity available, the spread between the
bid and ask
price can be vast and the
stocks are often targets
for speculators.
The
price of the assets would include the closing
price on the
stock rather than a
bid or ask, similar
pricing for bonds held by the fund, derivatives and cash equivalents.
They are, as the names suggest, what
price people are asking
for to be willing to sell their
stock, and how much people are
bidding to be willing to buy it at that moment.
Price improvement details are provided
for domestic
stock and single - leg option orders entered during market hours after the primary opening, provided there is a National Best
Bid and Offer (NBBO) at the time the order is placed.
Stock quotes DLR 1 - Log in to my Discount Broker 2 -
Bid on a limit order at the current Ask
price = 10.44 If the order got executed, call broker to move my DLR to my USD account 3 - If allowed right away or wait for 3 days, then sell My DLR at current Bid Price =
price = 10.44 If the order got executed, call broker to move my DLR to my USD account 3 - If allowed right away or wait
for 3 days, then sell My DLR at current
Bid Price =
Price = 9.95
I routinely buy & sell
stocks below $ 1 that have a 25 %
bid - ask spread using limit orders and am able to buy
for the quoted
price on Google Finance.
For ordinary
stocks, large enough, with legitimate earnings and somewhat predictable prospects, the size of the
bid - ask spread reflects the short - run volatility of
price.
Some days, he shows up at your door offering ridiculous
bids for the
stocks you own, while on other days he sells at
prices that much too low.
If that isn't the case and there's no added risk, it's an easy choice
for investors: They'll realize there's a free investment lunch to be had, they'll flock to buy the
stocks involved, the share
prices will be
bid up and future performance will be no better than the rest of the market.
The
bid represents the
price that a buyer is willing to pay
for the
stock.
When a
stock is ask
for 15.2 and
bid for 14.5, and the last market
price was 14.5, what does it mean?
«
For stocks, I always put in a lowball
bid and wait three weeks to see if I can scoop it up at a lower
price,» David explains.
Stock prices soared more than 50 % on Monday after Suncor Energy launched an unsolicited $ 6.6 billion
bid for Canadian Oil Sands Ltd. this week.
In percentage terms, a $ 0.01 of
bid / ask spread is higher
for lower -
priced stocks than higher -
priced stocks, given the ratio to the share
price.
«Net Debit» is the asking
price for the
stock minus the
bid price for the call (i.e. it is your cost to get into the trade if you buy the
stock and sell the call).
On the other hand, illiquid markets, such as those
for thinly traded fixed income securities and small cap
stocks, can see
bid - offers spreads of over 1 % of the asset's
price.
Beta: a measure of the volatility of a
stock (or portfolio of
stocks) and how closely it correlates with the overall market
bID price: the highest
price potential buyers are willing to pay
for a
stock.
Buyers put in a
bid price, or a
price they are willing to buy the
stock for, while sellers put in an ask
price, or a
price they are willing to sell the
stock for.
Suppose the
bid price for an expiration date of two months from now
for a $ 20 strike
price is paying $ 2.17 (the «premium»),
for a total of $ 217
for one option contract (because one contract covers 100 shares of
stock).
So if a
stock for example has last sale
price of $ 0.50, has a highest
bid price of $ 0.40 and a lowest offer
price of $ 0.60, and an average daily volume of 10000 share, it is likely to be very illiquid.
Under certain circumstance, the issuance of the preferred
stock could make it more difficult
for a third party to gain control of Forward, discourage
bids for the common
stock at a premium, or otherwise adversely affect the market
price of our common
stock.
Because
for a
stock that has a last traded
priced of $ 5 or $ 6 and volume traded over $ 4M (i.e. it seems to be quite liquid), it is hardly likely that the difference from
bid to ask would be as large as $ 1 (maybe
for a
stock that has volume of 4 to 5 thousand, but not
for one having volume of 4 to 5 million).
For this example, assume that I have a quote for KO stock which says the following: Current Price = $ 39.00 Bid = 38.99 x 6800 Ask = 39.00 x 4300 What
For this example, assume that I have a quote
for KO stock which says the following: Current Price = $ 39.00 Bid = 38.99 x 6800 Ask = 39.00 x 4300 What
for KO
stock which says the following: Current
Price = $ 39.00
Bid = 38.99 x 6800 Ask = 39.00 x 4300 What...
For the
stock in the example above, the
bid - ask spread in percentage terms would be calculated as $ 1 divided by $ 20 (the
bid - ask spread divided by the lowest ask
price) to yield a
bid - ask spread of 5 % ($ 1 / $ 20 x 100).
For purposes of showing buy - write candidates, we have chosen to use a
stock's asking
price and a call option's
bid price.
Feature: While new Nasdaq rules and the switch to decimal
pricing have reduced the
bid - ask spread, the spread continues to be signficant
for smaller - cap
stocks, particularly those that have low volume.
For stock and option orders with wide
bid - ask spreads, there is a wider range of
prices at which your order could execute inside of the spread.
If I hold gold in
stock, but sell futures to lock in the
price, then co-basis represents the difference between the
bid price for spot and the offer
price for futures.
The
bid price is how much someone is willing to pay
for the
stock, or the
price at which you could sell your shares.
Best
bid for Stock Android lovers
for this
price.
«Our first point of issue regards the potential purchase
price for a share of common
stock of the company (Konover), at least as indicated by the public
bids of Prometheus Southeast Retail Trust, and its affiliates, including Lazard Freres Real Estate Investors, LLC,» the letter reads.