Fill or Kill Orders Explained
In this week’s Fast Finance lesson, New York Institute of Finance Instructor, Anton Theunissen, explains Fill Or Kill (FOK) Orders. A FOK is an order that requires the immediate purchase or sale of a specified amount of stock, though not necessarily at one price. If the order cannot be filled immediately, it is automatically cancelled (killed). For example, a FOK that is traded on the NASDAQ exchange is equivalent to placing an order which is an immediate or cancel order. This means that when you place an order, and the order isn’t executed immediately as it arrives on the exchange order book, then it is cancelled. In addition, it’s an all-or-nothing order, meaning the order must be executed in its entirety or not at all.
About the Instructor
Anton Theunissen has twelve years of financial services experience and more than 10 years of academic experience, teaching finance, economics and mathematics to graduate and undergraduate students. His research interests include the effects of securitization and rational default behavior on mortgage credit extension.
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