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I placed an order at a particular price, and the stock traded at that price – why didn my order execute?

April 26, 2017execute particular Placed price stock Traded

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I placed an order at a particular price, and the stock traded at that price – why didn my order execute?

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If you are trading listed stocks, your limit orders are executed in the order that they are received by the exchanges; it is possible that other orders were placed before yours. Also market orders receive the highest priority while orders noted “all or nothing” receive the lowest priority.