What is Bid?
The price buyers are willing to pay. When you sell, you trade at the Bid.
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- Arbitrage StrategiesTriangular Arbitrage
Three currencies (dollar, euro, yen) and three exchange rates. If the third rate doesn't line up with the other two, going once around the triangle leaves you with extra money.
- Forex BasicsBuy / Sell and the Spread
Why are you down the moment you open a trade? Watch Buy fill at the Ask and Sell fill at the Bid in real time, and see the spread widen at different times of day.
- Options BasicsReading an Option Chain
That big T-shaped table in your trading app: strikes in the middle, calls on the left, puts on the right, each cell with a bid and an ask. Learn to pick out the contract you want.
- Stock Trading: Next StepsMarket Orders
No price preference, fill it now. Submit a market order yourself and watch it "eat" through the asks level by level.
- Stock Trading: Next StepsReading the Order Book
Everyone's buy and sell orders sit in a single table. Follow the guided tour and read it line by line.
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