It was all set to trade. But then something went wrong. Compliance (a bunch of lawyers hired to sift through the details of every trade, who clearly did something very bad in a former life to have to be reborn into doing this job) told you the money wasn't good. It had been traced as having been sourced via an Al Qaeda operative...so no, the million shares of AMZN cannot trade. The order is stopped until further investigation can be made.
Sorry, Charlie. Or whoever you are.
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been trading wildly between $15 and $25 a share you don't want to feel like a
moron for having sold them at fifteen bucks when six weeks later they kissed
25 with tongue so what do you do well you put in a limit order that is you put
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somebody out in the wild blue yonder of Stockland is willing to pay twenty five [Woman standing at a colonel electric stand]
dollars or more for the shares where you have a minimum price limit of 25 bucks a
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