market order
noun
: an order to buy or sell securities or commodities immediately at the best price obtainable in the market
Examples of market order in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the Web
Some ways to sell a concentrated holding include: limit orders and stop orders and dollar-cost averaging out of the stock at pre-determined intervals using market orders.
—
Kristin McKenna, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
Different ways to trade There are more ways to sell stock than just placing one big market order.
—Kristin McKenna, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
In their groundbreaking research, the team sought the forex brokers with the quickest execution speeds for limit and market orders.
—Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 6 July 2023
Meanwhile, Fusion Markets made a notable splash in the market orders arena, leading the field with a swift 70 milliseconds.
—Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 6 July 2023
Market depth was measured as the market’s ability to sustain relatively large market orders without impacting the asset price.
—WSJ, 12 June 2023
Earlier this month, Pinduoduo’s community group-purchase business was fined alongside four other operators for excessive subsidies in the second half of 2020, a move that had disrupted market order, according to the State Administration for Market Regulation.
—Fortune, 18 Mar. 2021
In July 2020, National Review Online, with the support of National Review Institute, launched Capital Matters to explain, celebrate, and improve the market order.
—Heather Wilhelm, National Review, 19 Jan. 2023
The question is whether this new market order will ebb in the year to come or if investing strategies have been permanently altered.
—Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 30 Dec. 2022
Kristin McKenna, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
Different ways to trade There are more ways to sell stock than just placing one big market order.
—Kristin McKenna, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
In their groundbreaking research, the team sought the forex brokers with the quickest execution speeds for limit and market orders.
—Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 6 July 2023
Meanwhile, Fusion Markets made a notable splash in the market orders arena, leading the field with a swift 70 milliseconds.
—Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 6 July 2023
Market depth was measured as the market’s ability to sustain relatively large market orders without impacting the asset price.
—WSJ, 12 June 2023
Earlier this month, Pinduoduo’s community group-purchase business was fined alongside four other operators for excessive subsidies in the second half of 2020, a move that had disrupted market order, according to the State Administration for Market Regulation.
—Fortune, 18 Mar. 2021
In July 2020, National Review Online, with the support of National Review Institute, launched Capital Matters to explain, celebrate, and improve the market order.
—Heather Wilhelm, National Review, 19 Jan. 2023
The question is whether this new market order will ebb in the year to come or if investing strategies have been permanently altered.
—Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 30 Dec. 2022
These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'market order.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.
Dictionary Entries Near market order
Cite this Entry
“Market order.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/market%20order. Accessed 23 Apr. 2024.
Copy CitationLove words? Need even more definitions?
Merriam-Webster unabridged
Share