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In securities trading, an order book contains the list of buy orders and the list of sell orders. For each entry it must keep among others, some means of identifying the party (even if this identification is obscured, as in a dark pool), the number of securities and the price that the buyer or seller are bidding/asking for the particular security.
Alpha is a measure of the active return on an investment, the performance of that investment compared with a suitable market index.An alpha of 1% means the investment's return on investment over a selected period of time was 1% better than the market during that same period; a negative alpha means the investment underperformed the market.
A central limit order book (CLOB) [1] is a trading method used by most exchanges globally using the order book and a matching engine to execute limit orders.It is a transparent system that matches customer orders (e.g. bids and offers) on a 'price time priority' basis.
Market capitalization is a term used to describe the size of a company based on the total value of the company’s stock. Market capitalization is an important data point for making informed ...
The index is calculated by Deutsche Börse. It includes the 50 Prime Standard shares that rank in size immediately below the companies included in the DAX index. The company size is calculated based on a combination of order book volume and market capitalization. The index is based on prices generated in the electronic trading system Xetra.
A limit order will not shift the market the way a market order might. The downsides to limit orders can be relatively modest: You may have to wait and wait for your price.
Order Book/ Depth of Market. Order Flow Traders can see levels of support and resistance by the size of buy and sell orders. On a footprint chart these are shown by buy and sell imbalances. [4] A buy imbalance tells us that there are much more buyers than sellers at that price point, indicating potential support levels.
The bid–ask spread (also bid–offer or bid/ask and buy/sell in the case of a market maker) is the difference between the prices quoted (either by a single market maker or in a limit order book) for an immediate sale and an immediate purchase for stocks, futures contracts, options, or currency pairs in some auction scenario.