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  2. Order book - Wikipedia

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    An order book is the list of orders (manual or electronic) that a trading venue (in particular stock exchanges) uses to record the interest of buyers and sellers in a particular financial instrument. A matching engine uses the book to determine which orders can be fully or partially executed.

  3. Psychological pricing - Wikipedia

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    There was a very clearly demonstrated inverse relationship between the price of cigarettes and individual's motivation to smoke. Researchers found that price hikes that impacted the leftmost digit in the price (i.e. $4.99 vs. $5.00) were particularly effective in causing change among adult smokers.

  4. Central limit order book - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Indication of interest - Wikipedia

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    For large trades of newly issued securities, different from a pre-IPO indication, an indication of interest are expressions of trading interest that contain one or more of the following elements: the security name, whether the participant is buying or selling, the number of shares, capacity and/or price of the purchase or sale. [2]

  6. Threshold price-point - Wikipedia

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    In economics, a threshold price point is the psychological fixing of prices to entice a buyer up to a certain threshold at which the buyer will be lost anyway. The most common example in the United States is the $??.99 phenomenon—e.g. setting the price for a good at $9.99.

  7. Real prices and ideal prices - Wikipedia

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    The distinction between real prices and ideal prices is a distinction between actual prices paid for products, services, assets and labour (the net amount of money that actually changes hands), and computed prices which are not actually charged or paid in market trade, although they may facilitate trade. [1]

  8. Random walk hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    The closing stock price for each day was determined by a coin flip. If the result was heads, the price would close a half point higher, but if the result was tails, it would close a half point lower. Thus, each time, the price had a fifty-fifty chance of closing higher or lower than the previous day. Cycles or trends were determined from the tests.

  9. List price - Wikipedia

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    This 1916 advertisement distinguishes the list price and a lower our special price.. The list price, also known as the manufacturer's suggested retail price (MSRP), or the recommended retail price (RRP), or the suggested retail price (SRP) of a product is the price at which its manufacturer notionally recommends that a retailer sell the product.