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National Best Bid and Offer
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National Best Bid and Offer
An SEC regulation stating that brokers are required to seek the best possible price for their customers. This means that brokers may not find less favorable prices in order to extract a higher commission. See also: Fiduciary Responsibility.


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The residual will not post; Iceberg - A synthetic reserve order allowing traders to designate how much of the order should be displayed when posting to the market; NBBO Sweep - An order type that selects exchange based on NBBO.
Indeed, many investors are not even aware that it is possible to improve upon the NBBO (National Best Bid and Offer) prices -- the prices that are posted publicly and disseminated by the securities markets (and reproduced in such places as the Wall Street Journal and online quotation services).
New proprietary routing technology often provides significant advantage over NBBO CHICAGO -- optionsXpress Holdings, Inc.
 
 
 
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