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Does the difference between a marketable limit order's price and the bid-ask price influence the priority of the order?

Personal Finance & Money Asked on August 11, 2021

A stock is $10 bid and $11 offered. Alice places a marketable buy limit order with a limit price of $12 per share. At exactly the same time, Bob places a marketable buy limit order with a limit price of $13 per share. Assume that the market’s bid and offer prices do not change. Does Bob’s order have priority over Alice’s order by virtue of Bob’s higher limit order price?

One Answer

"At exactly the same time"

Your question is meaningless.

In the database, there's just a sequence for orders. (1, 2, 3 etc.) They cannot be at the "same time", time is not used and the concept is meaningless. The sequence numbers are unique and ascending.

So as a general concept there's (a) price ordering {no connection at all to time} and (b) sequence ordering {no connection at all to time}. (And indeed (a) comes first then (b) second in the spirit of your question.)

Setting that issue aside, the answer to the spirit of your question is "No": the limit figure is not used in any way, whatsoever, to decide between two possibles, only the sequence mentioned in the 2e para.


{Time, per se, is irrelevant; it would be commonplace and ubiquitous that many orders have the same time-stamp, whatever resolution is used on whatever platform; it means nothing: the sequential ordering is used to differentiate.}

Answered by Fattie on August 11, 2021

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