Term
Market order
An instruction to buy or sell right away at whatever price is available. It fills immediately, but you only find out the exact price afterwards.
In pesos: You send a market order for 10 shares you saw at $50 MXN; if the best seller is now asking $50.40, you pay $504 instead of $500.
Where to go deeper
3/4 6 min Read How a stock exchange actually works What happens between pressing buy and owning a share: the order book, the BMV, its hours, who regulates it, what an index is and what you would see if you walked in.More terms on the same topic
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