Order (exchange)
Instructions to buy or sell financial securities / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about order in finance. For the order to engage in a commercial transaction for specific products or services as used in business, see Order (business).
An order is an instruction to buy or sell on a trading venue such as a stock market, bond market, commodity market, financial derivative market or cryptocurrency exchange. These instructions can be simple or complicated, and can be sent to either a broker or directly to a trading venue via direct market access. There are some standard instructions for such orders.