Box-Top Order

  

An order to buy/sell a stock at the best price available in the market at the time the order is placed.

Normally, Jorge would be willing to pay a bit of a premium to complete a trade for clients. However, since his investment in EtherCoinChain was highly speculative and for his personal account only, he was fine with a box-top order to get as much as he could before another irrational spike in the price.

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