Buy-side refers to a market participant that acts as a dealer’s customer.
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The bid/ask spread is the difference between the bid and ask price. The “ask” price is also known as the “offer” price. It’s the difference between the buyer’s and seller’s prices. The “bid “represents demand and the “ask” represents supply for an asset. In other words, it’s what the buyer is willing to pay for […]
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A Retail Foreign Exchange Dealer (RFED) is a financial firm that offers retail forex trading services to individual traders.
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Liquidity describes the extent to which an asset can be bought and sold quickly, and at stable prices, and converted to cash. Liquidity refers to how quickly and at what cost one can sell an asset,...
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A direct price stream refers to when a liquidity provider streams prices at which trades can be executed directly with another party. Trading not intermediated via a third party. Both...
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A central limit order book (“CLOB”) is a trade execution model based on a transparent system that matches customer orders (bids and offers) on a ‘price/time priority’ basis. Outstanding offers to...