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Lock Used in the context of general equities. Make a market both ways (bid andoffer) either on the bid, offering, or an in-between price only. Locking on the offering occurs to attract a seller, since the trader is willing to pay (and ask) the offering side when others only ask it. Locking on the bid side attracts buyers for similar reasons. Typically, the sell side requires a plus tick to comply with short sale rules. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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9 also features a new garbage collector that utilizes multiple thread-local heaps to allow lockless, parallel allocation. Support for latest versions of RTX; -- Support for Multi-Processor platforms; -- Fully preemptive and lockless to avoid priority inversions; -- Support for queues with multiple readers and writers; -- Run-time licensing which imposes no limits on the number of |
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