Price Improvement: Price improvement occurs when you pay less or receive more on a securities transaction than the bid and offer prices being currently quoted. In other words, the price you pay to buy is lower than the offer price or the price you collect for selling is higher than the bid price. Price improvement may occur for a variety of reasons, from a change in market price to the diligence of your broker in seeking out the best price. For example, your broker may fill your order from the firm’s inventory or net it against a sell order from another client of the firm. Or the order might be sent to a particular market for execution if a better price is available.

 

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Price Improvement: Price improvement occurs when you pay less or receive more on a securities transaction than the bid and offer prices being currently quoted. In other words, the price you pay to buy is lower . . . View Full Definition

Price Risk: The risk that the value of a security (or a portfolio) will decline in the future. Or, a type of mortgage pipeline risk created in the production segment when loan terms are set for the borr . . . View Full Definition

Price Spread: An options strategy that involves buying and selling two options on the same security with the same expiration month, but with different exercise prices.

Price Support: Government intervention to set an artificially high price through the use of a price floor designed to aid producers.