Bid is the highest price a prospective buyer is prepared to pay at a particular time for a trading unit of a given security; asked is the lowest price acceptable to a prospective seller of the same security. Together, the two prices constitute aQuotation the difference between the two prices is the Spread. Although the bid and asked dynamic is common to all securities trading, "bid and asked" usually refers to Unlisted Securities traded Over The Counter.
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