Ask price

Ask price, also called offer price, offer, asking price, or simply ask, is the price a seller states they will accept.

This requested amount is often called the asking price or selling price, while the actual payment may be called the transaction price or traded price.

In bid and ask, the term ask price is used in contrast to the term bid price.

In bid and ask, the bid price stands in contrast to the ask price or "offer", and the difference between the two is called the bid–ask spread.

In bid and ask, the term ask price is used in contrast to the term bid price.

The bid–ask spread (also bid–offer or bid/ask and buy/sell in the case of a market maker), is the difference between the prices quoted (either by a single market maker or in a limit order book) for an immediate sale (offer) and an immediate purchase (bid) for stocks, futures contracts, options, or currency pairs.

Ask price, also called offer price, offer, asking price, or simply ask, is the price a seller states they will accept.

In the context of stock trading on a stock exchange, the ask price is the lowest price a seller of a stock is willing to accept for a share of that given stock.

For over-the-counter stocks, the asking price is the best quoted price at which a market maker is willing to sell a stock.

For mutual funds, the asking price is the net asset value plus any sales charges.

The ask price is the lowest price a seller of a commodity is willing to accept for that commodity.

In auctions the ask price is the reservation price.

In auctions the ask price is the reservation price.

Most commonly, it means an auction in which the auctioneer begins with a high asking price, and lowers it until some participant accepts the price, or it reaches a predetermined reserve price.

The Classical Chinese expression (from the Zhanguo Ce below) Bole yigu means "to instantly raise the ask price of something".

Generally speaking, when two parties wish to engage in trade, the purchaser will announce a price he is willing to pay (the bid price) and seller will announce a price he is willing to accept (the ask price).

They suggested that councils could take in tax the difference between the land owner's asking price and the highest bidder's offer, claiming this would stimulate development and the revenue then used to lower other taxation.

While the term quote specifically refers to the bid price or ask price of an instrument, it may be more generically used to relate to the last price which the security traded at ("last sale").

To get 12 Monkeys approved for production, Gilliam persuaded Willis to lower his normal asking price.

The October 21, 2009 edition of the Rick Latona "Daily Domains" newsletter advertised the goatse.cx domain for sale at an asking price of $15,000, noting it as being a "famous site, [with] tons of backlinks".

He used the exchange's software to sell them all nominally, creating a massive "ask" order at any price.

By purchasing what it expects to be uninformed order flow, a market-maker can buy at the bid and sell at the ask with less risk of trading at a loss than with an informed trader who knows that the market is mispricing the security.

Oklahomas keel was laid down on 26 October 1912, by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation of Camden, New Jersey, who bid $5,926,000 to construct the ship.

He also convinced several cast and crew members to lower their asking prices.