Offer price: related pages

Bid price
The highest price at which a buyer is willing to buy a particular security. The buyer may be a market maker or an ordinary investor.
Mid-price
The average of the bid and offer prices.
Market maker
A dealer who receives privileges in share dealing in return for providing liquidity, usually by always quoting firm bid and offer prices.
Yellow strip
The best bid and offer prices shown on certain LSE trading screens.
Exchange market size
The Minimum size of transactions up to which market maker quotes must be good for.
Tick
The unit in which security prices move.
Matched bargain
Trading systems in which investors’ offers to buy and sell securities are directly matched with each other rather than through market makers.
Agency cross
A trade that a broker matches directly between two of its clients, bypassing the market.
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