Market order

A trade order executed immediately at the best possible price currently available, that is, "at the market." If you wanted to buy Microsoft using a market order, you could tell your broker, "Buy 100 shares of Microsoft at the market."

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The Benefits of Using Limit Orders over Market Orders

June 8, 2008 about INTC | C | TRLG

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