ask and bid price

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• Bid price — A bid price is the highest price that a buyer (i.e., bidder) is willing to pay for a good. It is usually referred to simply as the bid. In bid and ask, the bid price stands in contrast to the ask price or offer , and the difference between the… …   Wikipedia

• bid price — bid or bid price The trading price acceptable to a prospective buyer of securities. American Banker Glossary This is the quoted bid, or the highest price an investor is willing to pay to buy a security. Practically speaking, this is the available …   Financial and business terms

• Bid Price — The price a buyer is willing to pay for a security. This is one part of the bid with the other being the bid size, which details the amount of shares the investor is willing to purchase at the bid price. The opposite of the bid is the ask price,… …   Investment dictionary

• Price mechanism — is an economic term that refers to the buyers and sellers who negotiate prices of goods or services depending on demand and supply.[1] A price mechanism or market based mechanism refers to a wide variety of ways to match up buyers and sellers… …   Wikipedia

• bid and asked — ˌbid and ˈasked adjective FINANCE relating to the highest price a buyer is willing to pay and the lowest price a seller is willing to accept: • The OTC Bulletin Board will provide bid and asked quotes on the smaller stocks. * * * bid and asked UK …   Financial and business terms

• bid-offer spread — ➔ spread2 * * * bid offer spread UK US noun [C] (also bid ask spread) ► STOCK MARKET the difference between the price that someone will pay for shares, etc. and the price that they will sell them at: »The bid offer spread on equity options is a… …   Financial and business terms

• Bid And Asked — A two way price quotation that indicates the best price at which a security can be sold and bought at a given point in time.The bid price represents the maximum price that a buyer or buyers are willing to pay for a security. The ask price… …   Investment dictionary

• Ask price — This article is about financial asking. For other uses, see Ask (disambiguation). Ask price, also called offer price, offer, asking price, or simply ask, is the price a seller states she or he will accept for a good. The seller may qualify the… …   Wikipedia

• Ask Size — The amount of a security that a market maker is offering to sell at the ask price. The higher the ask size, the more supply there is that people want to sell. When a buyer seeks to purchase a security, he or she can accept the ask price and buy… …   Investment dictionary

• price — A fixed value of something. Prices are usually expressed in monetary terms. In a free market, prices are set as a result of the interaction of supply and demand in a market; when demand for a product increases and supply remains constant, the… …   Financial and business terms

• Bid-Ask Spread — The amount by which the ask price exceeds the bid. This is essentially the difference in price between the highest price that a buyer is willing to pay for an asset and the lowest price for which a seller is willing to sell it. For example, if… …   Investment dictionary