They still sell order flow, but the price for order flow has dropped by more than 50% in the last year.
When you give your broker that sell order, the default rule--meaning the one he'll use if you don't specify otherwise--is first in, first out.
As sellers panicked and cut their asking prices, the Flipper sometimes pulled his sell order and bought, scoring the contracts at an advantageous price.
Figuring he'd spotted an institution working a big sell order with a clever computer program, Park sold the stock short every time the seller showed up.
If a primary dealer is liquidating a huge position, it doesn't want that fact known, lest others, smelling a huge sell order, try to crowd ahead of it.
Place a stop-sell order a few pips below the support level so that when the price reaches your specified price or goes below it, your short position will be opened.
You can then place a limit-sell order a few pips below that resistance level so that your short order will be filled when the market moves up to that specified price or higher.
In order to avoid the possibility of chalking up uncontrolled losses, you can place a stop-sell order at a certain price so that your position will automatically be closed out when that price is reached.
For a long position that has become very profitable, you may move your stop-sell order from the loss to the profit zone to safeguard against the chance of realizing a loss in case your trade does not reach your specified profit objective, and the market turns against your trade.
Those who are highly leveraged or those forced to sell in order to raise capital are experiencing the most pain right now.
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Traders who previously bought gold as a safe haven then opted to sell in order to book profits ahead of the three-day holiday weekend in the U.S., he said.
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It provided each state with a land grant to sell in order to raise proceeds to establish or improve colleges focusing on practical studies such as engineering, agriculture and military science.
U.S. carmakers complain they now have to sell large numbers of money-losing smaller vehicles in order to sell high-profit larger vehicles and meet the overall fuel economy average.
Instead of seeing me as an entity they can extract data from, in order to upsell and cross sell, or indeed on order to merchant my data on to other retailers, I want a service provider that I can genuinely trust my data to and who can broker relationships with me across the virtual world.
Yesterday in a Manhattan federal court, Douglas Faneuil , the former assistant to Peter Bacanovic , Stewart's former stockbroker, testified that he told Stewart that Samuel Waksal , the founder of ImClone Systems (nasdaq: IMCL - news - people ) and a friend of Stewart, was trying to sell his shares in his company just before Stewart issued the order to sell hers.
Chesapeake has promised to sell stuff in order to raise billions needed to pay down debt.
London is not the first to sell memorabilia in order to raise funds towards the cost of putting on the Games.
Auctioneer Edward Swindell said the current owner had decided to sell it in order to invest in other businesses.
They also monitor, mentor and train the businesses they sell to in order to ensure that each cup served is up to scratch in every cafe.
You can see where that ends up--with some kid from McDonald's refusing to sell you that order of large fries because your waist is too big.
At the time Real were said to have wanted to sell Robinho in order to help fund a bid for Manchester United's Cristiano Ronaldo, which reportedly upset Robinho.
In the past, our market has been so robust that you did not need to sell abroad in order to have a great business and live a comfortable lifestyle.
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Social gaming companies also need people to install apps in order to sell them virtual goods.
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That means that in order to sell drugs, drug companies need to get the word out.
This is done on a GTC Limit Order to sell strength to the Risky Level.
The state needs to clean its banks up in order to sell them off.
Cost, cost, cost in order to sell cheap, cheap, cheap seems to have worked well for Ikea.
He faces an additional charge of pretending to be her brother in order to sell her London home.
Yet the Sarbanes-Oxley act significantly restricted auditors' ability to cross-sell other services in order to bolster their independence.
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