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Finance Dictionary and Glossary of Investment Terms
Off-floor order
Definition 1.
Used for listed equity securities. (1) Order to buy or sell a security that originates off the floor of an exchange; customer orders originating with brokers, as distinguished from orders placed by floor members trading for their own accounts. Exchange rules require that an off-floor order be executed before orders initiated on the floor. Upstairs order. Antithesis of on-floor order; (2) order not handled on the floor but instead upstairs.
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Definition 2.
An order a customer places with a broker not on the floor of an exchange. Exchanges require that such orders be executed before identical on-floor orders.
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