Liquidity
Liquidity is how much you can trade without moving the price: a tight spread and deep size at each level. US Treasuries are the deepest market on earth. Liquidity vanishes when you need it, because market makers pull quotes into every number, and the after-hours book is thin by design.
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In the help centreSee the order types available on MochatradeRelated terms
- Market makerA market maker quotes a price to buy and a slightly higher price to sell all day and earns the spread. Since US prices…
- Order bookAn order book is the list of every resting buy and sell order, bids on one side and asks on the other, sorted by…
- Limit orderA limit order buys or sells only at your price or better. You control the price, the market decides whether you trade…
- Stop-limit orderA stop-limit order becomes a limit order, not a market order, at its trigger. It refuses a bad fill in a gap, and that…
- HedgingHedging is taking a second position that loses when your first one wins, to cut risk. Market makers hedge every fill…
- Closing auction (official close)The closing auction is the single matched trade at 1:30 AM IST, 2:30 AM in winter, that sets each US stock's official…
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