Off-floor order

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Off-floor order
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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