Stage wins in the mountains, however, look likely to be the Spanish outfit's best bid for glory.
The NBBO system requires trades to be executed at the best bid or offer possible, whatever exchange that might be on.
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Better technology would also give the virtual service economy a boost, in particular by making it easier to select the best bid.
The London Assembly is now asking if it was appropriate for him to be on the decision-panel responsible for choosing the best bid in the first place.
ISE's system will match orders at the midpoint of the National Best Bid and Offer, which is the current quote system traders use to price buy and sell orders.
But if these trades were conducted by our smart cheater, they would have bid up the calls and then let his bids get hit right at or very close to the best bid.
When the NYSE gets deluged, Hunsader says, their quote feed to the Consolidated Quote System (CQS), which is used as part of the National Best Bid and Offer (NBBO) system, gets delayed.
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When the exchange is not on the national best bid and offer (NBBO), the mechanism here at the CBOE will flash that order to participants in the marketplace and allow those participants to step up to the NBBO.
In short he noted that the spread betting companies offered contracts for differences (not unlike an option but a gambling contract, not an option itself) based upon the best bid and offer prices on the London Stock Exchange.
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If computerized traders jump in front of the other shoppers (or, to be more technical, jump in front of a best bid and offer, a BBO), and there is an eighth or even a sixteenth of a dollar until the next price point, the jumpers run some risks.
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Predictably, short-seller advocacy groups lamented the toughness and cost burdens of the new regulations, under which a trader wanting to short a particular stock has to find a price above the prevailing national best bid and offer price if the stock has already fallen 10% or more from the previous trading session.
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SourceXchange gets peer reviewers to help companies to pick the best programming bid.
She said that earlier in the selection process First Minister Alex Salmond wrote to her to wish her all the best with her bid.
With regard to download time, weekends proved to be the best time to bid due to reduced traffic, but fewer surfers at this time also means fewer goods on the auction block.
Its algorithms can suggest the best price to bid for keywords, based on where the ad will appear on the results page and how many other bidders are present, factoring in constantly changing auction prices.
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Over the past five years the best existing stuff has been bid up too high.
Making a bid really clear and interesting helps to persuade the customer that your bid is the best.
The memory module company said that after evaluating a range of alternatives, a special committee of the board decided the Silver Lake bid was in the best interests of holders.
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Wales begin their 2011 Rugby World Cup campaign against South Africa in Wellington on 11 September - as the Welsh bid to better their best World Cup performance of third place in 1987, also in New Zealand.
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In the same season he also ran inside the qualifying time for the 2008 Beijing Olympics - running 10.00 seconds in the 100 meters, just three one-hundredths of a second off his personal best - but failed in his bid to revoke his lifetime Olympic ban through the British courts.
With one out in the seventh inning, Yadier Molina, whose home run in Game 7 of the 2006 NLCS dashed the Mets' World Series hopes, did his best to thwart their no-hit bid.
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It pitches for business much like any other firm that relies on government procurement, basing a tender on its past history with a customer and its best guess as to how rivals will bid.
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Their fat checkbook lets them bid enormous sums for the best players, a key reason they are the only club to capture more than one championship in the past decade (the Bronx Bombers have won four in ten seasons).
TfL said the IBM bid had been chosen because it best met TfL's "operational and technical requirements".
Ms Furse's best course of action is clear: fight any bid on its merits and hire a good caterer.
The decision-panel decided that the UEL should get the grant despite scoring significantly lower than the bid which was deemed to have the best proposal.
So this process means that in some ways the winner will not be the bid that is thought to be the best, but rather the one that is considered least bad by most of the voters.
Some publishers fear that one of the big technology companies now distributing e-books will compete for the industry's best-known authors, by offering advances in a bid to gain market share.
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