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Financial Knowledge Base

Detailed Explanation of IB’s MOC and LOC Order Types: Two Strategies for Closing Price Trading

In mature markets like the US stock market, the closing price (Closing Price) holds significant reference value. It’s not only a summary of daily trading sentiment but also a benchmark for index calculations, fund net asset valuation, and portfolio valuations. Consequently, trading demand focused on closing prices has emerged. Within the Interactive Brokers (IB) trading platform, MOC (Market-on-Close, Closing Price) and LOC (Limit-on-Close, Limit Price) are important order types that allow investors to execute trades at the close.

Why the concept of “settlement” is necessary in traditional stock trading?

In today’s era of the global digital wave, we’ve become accustomed to instant transfers and near-instant payments. Therefore, many people are confused: why, after clicking “sell” on a stock, does my funds not immediately clear in full and become available, but instead takes one or two business days? This is precisely a crucial and historically significant concept within traditional stock trading – settlement. prompt: Why does traditional stock trading require the concept of settlement?

Over-the-Counter (OTC) Clearing and Settlement of Digital Currencies: Unveiling the Mechanisms Behind 7x24 Continuous Trading

Unlike traditional stock markets with defined opening and closing times, the digital currency market has attracted the attention of global investors due to its 7x24-hour continuous trading feature. This characteristic has also raised a core question: how are digital currencies cleared and settled in a world without a “market close” concept? Does it completely overturn these concepts in traditional finance? The answer is that digital currencies not only have clearing and settlement, but the way they are implemented and their system design are key to supporting all-day trading.

RWA (Real World Assets) and Web3: A New Bottle of Old Wine?

Driven by the tide of technological innovation, RWA (Real World Assets) and Web3 have become hot topics in the financial industry. Traditional financial institutions – once regarded as conservative and stable giants – are now actively embracing these emerging concepts, vigorously promoting the development of RWA and DeFi (Decentralized Finance). However, behind this technology-driven transformation lies a core question worth pondering: Are these dazzling new concepts truly disruptive innovation, or simply giving traditional financial businesses a “new look”?