[HN Gopher] An Introduction to Limit Order Books
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       An Introduction to Limit Order Books
        
       Author : is0tope
       Score  : 20 points
       Date   : 2021-07-21 16:46 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
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       | CameronBanga wrote:
       | Off-topic, but would love to know what tool the author used to
       | build that site/page. Is it some sort of platform/tool, or
       | something they wrote up themselves? I really liked the side bar
       | table of contents, along with the general format.
        
         | is0tope wrote:
         | I wish I was that good at design :).
         | 
         | The tool I used to make the page is a static site generator
         | called Hugo. The theme I used is called Cactus
         | (https://github.com/monkeyWzr/hugo-theme-cactus). I made some
         | minor modifications, but I really liked the style when I saw
         | it. That reminds me that I need to put a link at the bottom to
         | the author.
         | 
         | EDIT: I also highly reccomend using a static site generator for
         | a blog. I used to use wordpress and I found it to be very
         | cumbersome.
        
       | pm2222 wrote:
       | Is market order slippage risk still practical? In the case of
       | stock trading liquidity appears to be abundant for most stocks.
        
         | is0tope wrote:
         | It really depends on the stock and the liquidity available. I'm
         | certain if you fire a large sized market order into some penny
         | stock you will slip for sure. For the big liquid stocks I
         | agree, it is not as important, especially for small orders.
        
         | nly wrote:
         | Why would you ever do a market order anyway? Just put your
         | limit order in at a price that factors in the maximum slippage
         | you want. All exchanges should be performing best execution.
        
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