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imbalance of orders

A situation in which buy orders for a particular security greatly outnumber sell orders, or vice-versa. This may result in a temporary trading halt for that security, in order to prevent massive price swings. Imbalances of orders are usually caused by significant news announcements affecting the issuer of the security. also called order imbalance.

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  6. Yahoo Financial Glossary
    Imbalance of orders. Used for listed equity securities. Too many market orders of one kind-buy or to sell or limit orders to buy up or sell down, without matching ...
     
  7. Common Investment Concepts | Ameriprise Financial
    Illiquid securities have high transactions costs. Often the bid-ask spread is very wide. Imbalance of orders: Used for listed equity securities. Too many market ...
     
  8. Comment on SR-EDGX-2012-33 - Securities and Exchange ...
    Sep 11, 2012 ... with only the imbalance of orders on one side of the market being routed to the Listing Market as market-on-close orders.2 Even though the ...