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What is a limit order, and how can we be sure we never have one of those in place when we go to a doughnut shop?
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- 00:00
Finance a la shmoop what is a limit order? you want to sell a thousand shares
- 00:07
of Colonel electric it was demoted after they cut their dividend the shares have [Scissors cuts dividend in half]
- 00:13
been trading wildly between $15 and $25 a share you don't want to feel like a
- 00:19
moron for having sold them at fifteen bucks when six weeks later they kissed
- 00:24
25 with tongue so what do you do well you put in a limit order that is you put
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- 00:30
a limit of a minimum price of 25 bucks a share for Colonel Electric such that [Pile of stocks appear]
- 00:36
those shares will simply sit in your account unsold maybe forever until
- 00:41
somebody out in the wild blue yonder of Stockland is willing to pay twenty five [Woman standing at a colonel electric stand]
- 00:47
dollars or more for the shares where you have a minimum price limit of 25 bucks a
- 00:52
share in your order so here's to hoping they sell and don't get further demoted [Man carries stock into car]
- 00:57
Sargent Electric is just a place you don't want to go
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