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stock market pricing :when does a requested price become share's current price?
If suppose I have a some n shares of ABC inc, if I want to sell at $x , What is the condition that $x (my price) actually becomes the share price.In other words out of thousands of people bidding and requesting for share price, whose price ultimately get on bulletin board...?
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- Net Advisor™Lv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
A bid or ask is executed when the price and volume are met at the same time.
To watch this more closely, one might want to watch time and sales* and knowing where all bids are being placed cross markets. Bid prices change frequently based on bid/ask volume, or anticipation there of. This is what the market markers do.
You are prob looking to place a "limit order."
http://www.sec.gov/answers/limit.htm
*Here is a free site for T&S but it will not help one at all when it comes to real time trading.
Source(s): --- me (see bio for background) - Ja MaLv 51 decade ago
when a transaction occurs (someone buys your shares) and until the next transaction changes that price,