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When an electronic market reopens in the morning how are all the bids handled?

Personal Finance & Money Asked on June 21, 2021

When an electronic market reopens in the morning how exactly are all the bids (including market orders from both sides) handled?

A good answer should include a description of the process the exchange uses to determine the outcome, that is orders executed and at what price.

Consider for example the following order book:
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2 Answers

When an order is placed, it receives a time stamp. The time stamp determines the priority of an order on the order book. Earlier orders at a given price are executed before later orders at that price. This occurs for buy orders and for sell orders.

It's worth knowing that cancel/replace orders where you lower the number of shares/contracts in an order do not lose their time priority. However, you cannot cancel/replace with a larger number of shares in your order because that effectively let's you cut in line and prevent others from trading.

Answered by Bob Baerker on June 21, 2021

Between the below 2 questions you will have answers to your question.

If you still have doubts, please ask a specific question.

How are unmarketable market orders (other side of the order book is empty) matched with incoming orders?

How do exchanges match limit orders?

Answered by Dheer on June 21, 2021

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