Block Trader

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Block trader

A dealer who will take a position in the block trades to accommodate customer buyers and sellers of blocks. See: Dealer, market maker, principal.

Block Trader

A dealer who buys and sells large blocks of securities, usually more than 10,000 shares or $200,000 in value at a time.

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Clean Intraday Intensity Index Open Depending on the Floor Open on the Print			It's the successor to the brokerage work that used to keep block traders busy decades ago, when the NYSE ruled Wall Street but a fair amount of its trading took place upstairs. Part 2: New order ... or new virus? by Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA) Of course, if the block trader were permitted to "trade-through" the superior bid as the SEC proposed in 2004 and consummate the transaction at $99. From orders to markets: who should decide what is "best execution"? by Macey, Jonathan; O'Hara, Maureen / Regulation Block traders can also use nonstandard settlement to bypass the limit-order book on an exchange. Nonstandard-settlement transactions by Angel, James J. / Financial Management			Blind Offer Blind Perf Blind Pool Blind Trust Blister Agent Blister Pack Blitzkrieg Tender Offer Blocco block Block call Block Diagram Block Group Block Group Selector block house Block Limit Block list Block Move block numbering area Block of Policies Block Order Exposure System Block Out Block Policy Block Positioner Block Programming Block Trade Block Trader Block Voting Blockade Blockage Discount Blockbuster blockbusting Blocked Account Blocked Currency Blocked Funds Blockface Blockholder Blocking Law Blog Blogger Blood Agent Blood Diamond Bloodletting Bloomberg Bloomberg Terminal Bloque Blotter Blow-Off Top Blowout Blue book Blue Book Value Blue Chip			Block sorting Block Space Agreement Block Specification Block Spreading Code Division Multiple Access block standby Block Started by Symbol Block Started by Symbol Block Static Load Balancing Block Storage Segment Block Storage Start block stowage loading Block Street & Building Block structure Block Structured Query Language Block style Block Sum Check Block Surface Light Microscopy block system block system block systems block systems Block Tape Recorder Block Termination block the way Block time Block tin Block tin Block trade Block Trader Block Traders Block Trades Block Trading Block Transfer Block Transfer block transfer computations Block Transfer Controller Block Transform Coded Image Block Translation Look-aside Buffer Block Turbo Code Block Type block up block up block up Block Up Converter Block Value Decomposition Block Valve Station block vertebra block vertebra block vertebra block vertebra block vote Block votes Block voting Block Wavelet Transform Block Wiring Diagram Block, Adriaen Block, Direct Marketing Block, Herbert Block, Herbert

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