Talk:Order

I believe a link to my experience buying VSS would be appropriate in the section on how to trade ETFs, but it doesn't fit well with the current wording. It does illustrate the issues; I avoided getting burned on a market order (and someone else got burned later the same day), and I did lose when I tried to buy inside the spread and the price went up (numbers not in the post, but I believe I could have bought at $51.53 and wound up paying $51.75 fifteen minutes later).Grabiner 03:28, 24 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Perhaps a workable solution would be to take a portion of the post and place it in a quote box, with the source reference linking back to the forum conversation. Example:

--Blbarnitz 17:23, 24 May 2010 (UTC)  I took another approach, as there is another thread with real-time trading examples (we could find a lot more...). I reorganized, then added grabiner's thread as an External Link at the bottom of the page. My thinking is that these descriptions are more appropriate for the forum. The posts are very educational, especially when followed by interesting responses. In this case a near real-time discussion in the original context is more beneficial than an objective 3rd person wiki approach.

I also clarified the examples to be more readable to me (taking the newbie perspective). --LadyGeek 02:10, 25 May 2010 (UTC)