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Execution
5 guides in Finabase Learn
- Fill The execution of an order; a partial fill means only part of the requested quantity traded.
- Liquidity and slippage: volume, depth, spread and market impact What makes a stock liquid, how volume, depth and spread set trading costs, how to estimate slippage and market impact, and a real liquid vs illiquid comparison.
- Slippage The difference between the price you expected when you placed an order and the price you actually got, caused by spreads, thin liquidity and fast markets.
- Volume-weighted average price (VWAP) The average price a security traded at over a period, weighted by the volume at each price; the standard intraday benchmark for execution quality.
- VWAP (volume-weighted average price): session and anchored How VWAP weights typical price by volume, a minute-by-minute worked example on Palantir, session versus anchored VWAP, and exactly where Finabase’s VWAP is anchored.
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