When you place an order to buy or sell securities, you may get more—or less—than you bargained for. In some cases, the price quoted to you at the time of the sale may not exactly match the price you ...

The stock market lets investors trade shares in thousands of companies. These assets can gain value, provide cash flow and fortify retirement plans. The timing you buy and sell stocks impacts your ...

Whether you trade a single ETF share at a time or thousands, how you order trades matters. Three main order types exist: market order, limit order and stop order. Here are the pros and cons of each. A ...

If you’re still a novice trader, one whose strategies haven’t grown toward the more sophisticated side of things, your trade entries and exits might need some guidance. You need to familiarize ...

Market structure critics and pundits blame recent market uncertainly/volatility on the presence of hundreds, or even thousands of different order types that over ...

When Dan Mathisson took his Series 7 exam in 1992 to become a broker, there were half a dozen order types: the market order, the limit order and a few others. Now, BATS Global Markets says it says it ...

Effective from today, the new sweep order types will allow participants to access the dark, periodic auction and lit order books without the need to submit multiple orders. Cboe has introduced new ...

In all of the debates and rhetoric surrounding the dangers of electronic trading, the industry has lost sight of the simple obligation of the broker to protect the customer’s order. The market ...