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Buy Order

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Buy order
An order to a broker to purchase a specific quantity of a security.

buy order
A brokerage order to purchase a specified quantity of a security.

Buy Order
An instruction from an investor to a broker to buy a certain amount of a security. Buy orders may take various forms. For example, an investor may instruct the broker to buy immediately at the best available price, or to wait until a certain price is reached. See also: Sell order.


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And they're going into an electronic communications network and they are hitting the bid with the sale order or they're taking the offer with a buy order.
When the prices of a buy order and a sell order for a stock matched in the file, the trades would be executed automatically, without involving a brokerage firm that is a market-maker in the stock.
If the money doesn't reach the firm three days after the buy order, your dub may be fined or penalized and put on a restricted list.
 
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