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The ask price of a financial asset should be higher than its bid price. That's because an investor isn't expected to sell it (asking price) for lower than the price they are willing to pay for it ...

Continuing the example, if a seller lists their shares with an ask price of $102, this indicates they are only willing to sell at that price or higher. The bid-ask spread is the difference between ...

A bid is the highest price a buyer is willing to pay for a stock, while an ask is the lowest price a seller is willing to accept—the difference is between the two is known as the bid-ask spread.

The result has been higher premiums and wider bid/ask spreads for silver. Given the scarcity of supply and relentless demand ... It is, of course, generally a good idea to buy metal at the lowest ...

This tutorial shows algorithmic traders using MetaTrader 4 (MQL4), how to retrieve current BID / ASK and historical OHLCV prices in MQL5 (MetaTrader 5). MQL4 makes these accessible via pre-defined ...

This repository implements the efficient estimator of the effective bid-ask spread from open, high, low, and close prices described in: Ardia, D., Guidotti, E ...