Trading basics
Market order
Also known as: market buy, market sell
A market order is an instruction to buy or sell immediately at the best available price.
It prioritises certainty of execution over price, so it fills fast but can suffer slippage in fast or thin markets. Market orders cross the spread, paying the ask to buy or hitting the bid to sell.
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