Glossary

Matching

Automatic offsetting and execution of orders in an electronic trading system.

In the Xetra® electronic trading system, orders with the same bid and ask price are continuously offset and executed. Matching occurs according to price-time priority - i.e., if two bid orders have been placed for the same price, the first order received will be the first to be executed.

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