Stock Lingo, All or None!

When placing an order to buy shares of stock investors have sub-options such as “fill or kill” and in this case “all or none”. These expressions are actually types or orders and have specific meaning to how the order is filled / completed.

All or none means that when the investor places the stock order whether it be a buy or a sell, unless the order is filled in its entirety then the broker shouldn’t fill it at all. So, let’s say an investor is looking to buy a 1,000 share lot of Apple (AAPL), by checking All or None they are saying that unless they can get all 1,000 shares filled together as one order than don’t fill it at all.

Find the term All or None and hundreds of others in the stock terms area of the site (View a full list of all terms).

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