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- From: lib@cbnews.cb.att.com (Lib)
- Subject: Re: Day Orders or Until Cancelled
- Organization: AT&T
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 13:03:39 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.130339.9237@cbnews.cb.att.com>
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- In article <1h3n4vINNh7d@mirror.digex.com> hacker@access.digex.com (Dark Hacker) writes:
- >In article <BzBLqz.A0M@boi.hp.com> kmcintyr@boi.hp.com (Kevin McIntyre) writes:
- >>
- >>I was wondering what the advantages are (if any) of placing
- >>a Day Order vs. Until Cancelled. If you know you want a
- >>stock at a certain price (maximum) if you place the same
- >>buy order every day at the same price do you effectively get
- >>"bumped" from queue? That is, if there are X investors tring
- >>to get stock A for $Y, only so many orders can be filled at
- >>a time.
- >
- >Your broker's agreement should detail the algorithm they use to
- >determine this. There are priorities for various types of orders.
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- Your broker shouldn't have anything to do with it, certainly
- for exchange listed stocks and I wouldn't think for NASDAQ
- stocks either with the advent of computerized trading.
-
- >"Life itself is... COMPUTATION!"
-
- Right.
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