Cashier Check Money Order

Cashier Check Money Order

Cashier Check Money Order

Jim Cramer, stock market guru and host of the hugely popular CNBC daily investment program, “Mad Money” when responding to the question of a caller to his show recently put it succinctly when he said, “I really can’t think of a reason when you wouldn’t use a limit order.”

Buy Limit Order Defined

A buy limit order is an order to buy shares of stock at a set or better price. A brokerage order to buy stock placed without conditions, is a termed a market order. Market orders are filled at the market (current) price in effect at the time the order is executed.

Especially when the price of a stock is volatile and the price is moving up and down quickly, using market orders may result in an investor buying a stock during a spike in price only to realize an immediate loss when the price later settles lower. Wise investors never trade at market but use buy limit orders instead.