But instead of dropping price improvement or addressing customer problems, Lutnick slapped BrokerTec with a suit, claiming it had violated eSpeed's patents on such bond-trading conventions as the "work-up" (a practice that gave a trader, buying or selling at a given price, the right to execute all trading at that price until he's done) and "trading time" (the grace period a trader has to act under a work-up).
Big investors have a hard time buying in without driving up the price or selling out without driving it down.
He suggests an equity collar--buying a put below the market price and selling a call above it to defray the cost.
The expectation is that the availability of more price quotes will encourage buying and selling by investors who are interested in those funds.
"This is a case of buying low and selling high, because the lower the price goes, the higher the implied expected return rises, " he said.
The strict meaning is buying something in one market at one price and selling it again in another market at a different price at the same time.
But ADM always faces unpredictable price swings buying agricultural commodities from growers, and selling processed goods to end-users.
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According to Reuters, Goods takes on inventory risk getting a discount for buying products in bulk and selling them to consumers at a higher price.
Late trading is the illegal practice of buying or selling mutual-fund shares at the trading day's price after the market has closed.
Prices that used to be determined by producers and users of commodities are now set by financial speculators making naked bets on how much price pain consumers can endure without breaking by buying and selling derivatives commodity contracts.
In most of continental Europe the combined costs of buying and selling a house amount to 10% or more of the purchase price (see chart 7), and in Belgium to as much as 18%.
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In crude oil, the large price rises in July and August led to selling, while buying occurred in September when prices fell.
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The monetary authority's aim was to slap down hedge funds that had been shorting shares (selling borrowed shares in the hope of buying them back later at a lower price).
"Buying what you're selling during a distribution has a strong tendency to artificially inflate the price, " says Columbia Law School securities expert John Coffee.
He has a knack for buying a big stake for a low price, getting a drug to the market and selling at a big profit.
Dixons conceded that its profit margins had been squeezed during the reporting period, but attributed this to a change in the mix of products that customers were buying - with low-margin tablet computers selling particularly well - rather than rising costs or price discounts.
The transactions are done through an auction process with the dealers competing on price and the Fed accepting the low bids for buying and the high bids for selling.
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The best way to protect yourself is to use limit orders when placing an order to buy or sell a stock or an exchange-traded fund. (See How Your Buy and Sell Orders Get Filled for more.) Look at the bid-ask spread and set your price limit at the bid for selling a stock and at the ask for buying a stock.
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If the market price of gold moves a long way from this level, it may indicate a buying or selling opportunity.
One was of achieving this was via "wash trades" - buying and selling from the trader simultaneously, so the trades cancel each other out, but the difference in price generates a profit for the broker.
In short-selling, a trader borrows shares and then sells them, hoping to profit by buying them at a lower price later to close out the loan.
Selling low and buying high seems to indicate either extraordinarily bad judgment--or an effort to firm the stock price.
If Apple doubles in price, the manager of a capitalization-weighted fund can take the day off, neither buying nor selling.
The price of steel, lumber, concrete, health insurance, everything - I've been buying and selling in this location since 1989, and I have never seen in a shorter period of time prices on everything across the board go up at the way that they're going up right now.
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