I tried to sell 10 shares during the run up this morning and couldn't. Weird. Any idea why?
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I tried to sell 10 shares during the run up this morning and couldn't. Weird. Any idea why?
Maybe all of the bids were "all-or-none" greater than your 10 shares.
If they are buying 100 share blocks it might skip right over you.
No, the orders don't skip. If you offer to sell at a lower price then the next seller your shares will sell first
AON order
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/aon.asp
I was assuming that the seller in this case did not put in an AON order. If he did there might be a problem matching orders for the sale. If the buyer in this case had an AON order for 100 shares the sellers 10 (if best price) would have been picked up along with 90 others at best price.
That would be a series of partial fills --- it wouldn't go through.
Ah that makes sense.
I've seen this done to "paint" the ticker tape.
You put in a bid and someone buys below you. It goes back up --- you get nothing.