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Questions tagged [bid-ask]

For questions related to the pricing details of securities in markets where there exists the notion of "resting orders" or an "order book".

The bid–ask spread (also known as bid–offer) for securities is the difference between the prices quoted (either by a single market maker or in a limit order book) for an immediate sale (bid) and an immediate purchase (ask). The size of the bid-ask spread in a security is one measure of the liquidity of the market and of the size of the transaction cost.

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How to remember and not to mix the bid and ask prices

Maybe it seems a very silly question but I think it is not. I am working as developer for a firm and I have a huge problem to remember and distinguish what the bid and the ask prices are. I know that the bid is related to the best buy order in the…
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Bid/Ask Price Clarification [Real examples]

Bid: $148.94 Ask: $149.05 Price $149.20 (Market) Can someone explain to me why my final purchase price with the market price doesn't equal to $149.05? From my understanding, isn't that the minimum price I am able to buy it? Bid: $148.94 Ask:…
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How do bid/ask sizes always end up being exactly hundreds of shares, rather than (for example) 84 shares?

Let's say stock XYZ has a bid price of $15.00 with a size of 400 and an ask price of $15.50 with a size of 1100. My understanding from reading on Investopedia is that these size numbers (400 and 1100) are the aggregates of pending limit…
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How is Ask calculated on an exchange?

How are Bid and Ask calculated? If someone offers to sell a single share of a stock at twice yesterday's price at closing, does that inflated price become the Ask? Or is Ask an average of some kind, like the average selling-price of the top n…
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volume vs amount

Which version is right: Version 1: Amount = Volume x Price per asset Version 2: Volume = Amount x Price per asset I guess, version 2. But I am not sure.. When looking at an orderbook, the word amount is used. For example: ASK-Price: 1$ ASK-Amount:…
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What do I need when I want to go short?

When I buy an asset and go long, then I order the asset with the BID-Price. If I sell it, then I need the ASK-Price for the sell order. What do I need when I want to go short? Is the following statement right? When I enter an asset and go short,…
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do bid volumes and ask volumes represent completed trades

There is a number beside the current bid price and a number beside the current ask price. Do these numbers represent the volume of trades completed at the bid and ask prices or pending completion?
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Bid Tick and Ask Tick

Is it possible to have a bid tick that goes down and an ask tick that goes up at the same time? That's to say a down tick for bid and up tick for ask at the same time or when a bid tick is up so will the ask tick and vice-versa
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bid/ask bid volume/ask volume and tick data

So far i've only traded some on plus500. Here are my questions: I don't really understand how things work in the background. I've understood that the ask price is the best sell offer available, the best one determines the ask price right? So let's…
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How can the ask price be higher than the bid price in the stock market?

I recently checked the bid and ask price in the Apple stock, and I found that the ask price was higher than the bid. Why is this? Apple Stock Image I thought that bid was supposed to be higher than the ask.
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Asked or Bid price which one is right

I recently bought shares on a market where I normally buy and we're confirmed at asked price sorry not bid please see attached pictures and number of shares were confirmed and a congratulations note sent as normal but at open time price was changed…
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Bid volume greater than offer volume, but price increasing. Why is this?

I'm looking at a 1-minute chart of NQ prices. Using a CQG data feed that provides bid and offer volume. Every minute over a given 5 minute period, the number of shares traded at BID was greater than those traded at OFFER. However, over that same 5…
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Bid and asked confusion on a scam site?

Which price is for the buyer here?
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