Market mechanics: last price, bid and ask

There are so many different ways to buy and sell securities in your brokerage account. In this episode, we'll go over many of the different order types you may see in your brokerage account when you go to buy or sell a stock, or any securities.

What does Bid and Ask mean? What is Stop and Limit Order? What are market orders? How many different Order Types are there and what is the difference? This is your ‘set it and forget it” overview of order types for trading securities through your brokerage firm.

Remember These Things:

Take taxable events into account (capital gains, losses, selling before holding for 1 year, etc.)

Don’t try to time the market.

This is education, not advice. 😉

Limit Order vs Market Order:

Limit Order guarantees price not execution

Market Order guarantees execution

Trading Order Types Vocabulary: 

Market Mechanics

Bid & Ask Price

Market Order

Limit Order

Stop Loss Order

Trailing Stop Loss

Stop Price 

Limit Price

Conditional Order Types

FOK = Fill Or Kill

GTC = Good Till Canceled 

OTO = One Triggers Other

OTOCO = One Triggers Other Cancel Other

SPX  = S&P 500 Indice Symbol

FINRA has a good explanation of Order Types

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Episodes You May Also Like:

We’ve already gone over Bid and Ask prices and how those market mechanics work in previous episodes as well. Check out Episodes 16 (on Dark Pools, PFOF,

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