Market on Close An order specification that requires the broker to get the best price available on the close of trading, usually during the last five minutes of trading. Market Order Buying or selling securities at the price given at the time the order reached the market. A market order is to be executed immediately at the best available price, and is the only order that guarantees execution. The most recent price at which a security transaction took place. The price at which investors buy or sell a share of common stock or a bond at a given time.
Market value is determined by the interaction between buyers and sellers.
Mid-cap Stocks Usually solidly established medium growth firms with less than 100 billion in assets. They provide better growth potential than blue-chip stocks, but do not offer as wide a variety of investment attributes. When a market continues in the same direction for a certain time frame, the market is said to have momentum. A technical indicator utilizing price and volume statistics for predicting the strength or weakness of a current market. The moving average is probably the best known, and most versatile, technical indicator.