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My broker allows me to set limits on price and size and I have chosen to do so. If I place a BTO or STO order for more than 1,000 shares (long or short) or more than 10 option contracts (long or sho …

Contingent orders (limit, stop loss, all or none, GTC, etc.) can be adjusted or cancelled at any time.

His capital is tied up and he faces the choice of becoming a Buy & Hope investor or selling the position and booking the loss. …

Exchanges do not decide which shares are sold if selling partial lots. That is your decision to make, assuming that your tax laws permit this. …

Saying that the stock went up to 86 cents is insufficient information. That could have been the ask price which could be meaningless. Suppose the current price is $0.81 x $0.86. I buy some shares at …

If share price is rising, scaling out is better than selling all shares immediately. If share price is dropping, selling immediately is better than scaling out. …

Borrow cost may also affect premium but that doesn't happen very often so let's skip that one. If an option has time premium remaining, it experiences time decay every single day (decreases). If impl …

The second problem is that as price drops due to 'Redmond selling', new orders would enter the market to buy at lower prices. There's no way to estimate how many of those will occur. … Last of all, the rate of selling affects the speed of descent. Dumb money places a huge order and price gaps. …

If you buy and sell an option or an equity on the same day, it's a day trade.

Short selling is the sale of a security not owned by the seller. If available, your broker borrows them from someone who owns the stock. …

The fund now owns the correct securities and has avoided a cash transaction from selling the shares. …

The SEC requires that Large Traders report trades to the SEC on Form 13H. A large trader is defined as someone who transacts: 2 million or more shares or $20 million in a NMS security during a …

This call isn't massively overpriced. It's a worthless option with no buyers and sellers offering a bid or an ask. As a consequence, the market maker is just displaying an off the wall price. If …

You sold your ETF shares so the transaction is complete. Poof! Your shares are gone. Equities have a T+2 settlement date. Since it's a Cash Account, that means that the proceeds from your sale wil …

There are headlines to this effect: Patanjali Ayurved completes acquisition of bankrupt Ruchi Soya for Rs 4,350 crore. Is that your company? If so, google for details.