Backing Away

finance a la shmoop what does away from the market mean? limit orders that's what

this one's about you want to buy a hundred shares of amazork the finest [Person on computer looking at amazork]

seller of werewolf catching nets on the web but you don't want to pay more than

a grand a share for them and those shares are volatile, on days when there's

a full moon the stock shoots to 1,200 on days when the moon barely shows up the

stock often craters to right around a thousand so you put in your limit order

which is away from the market... Amazork is trading at $1,187 a share

this moment thanks to a half moon and you think it'll be two thousand dollars [Line increasing on graph of Amazork shark price]

a share in five years if what all those crazy astronomers are saying actually

holds water well but you want to be able to buy it at the right price you'll feel

like an idiot if you just pay 1,187 and then three months from now it's at 998

and you overpaid by 20-ish percent so you put in a limit order that is away [Man discussing limit orders]

from the market and note that away from the market can also work on a sell order

that's higher than market and you think about that for when the stock gets to

2000 so you wait and you wait preferably indoors and you know away from any open [Woman sitting by window and werewolf appears]

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