Talk:Bid–ask spread

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The text for bid offer spread explains clearly what this is. Of practical interest to many investors would be the inferences to be drawn from a changing spread. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mikecc2691 (talk • contribs) 17:23, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Actually ask is used to sell. offer is used for buying. there is laot difference rates. some buy at sell arte. and seller is intersted to sell at higher. mainly big difference in volllite stocks. which will lot of losses. when maket are to decline 1st volilatile stocks decline 1st. the reson behind that the investor try to exit from that time. selling increase and investor si not able to book losses. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rishi31 (talk • contribs) 17:20, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

Delete the terms "liquidity demander" and "liquidity supplier", and use "buyer" and "seller" instead. --TheUKProf (talk) 16:03, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

Bid-ask spread
hey folks. it seems Bid-ask is the preferred term. Did a bit of research. here is the data from the zeitgeist:

Ngram searches millions of books:

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=bid-offer+spread%2C+bid-ask+spread&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cbid%20-%20offer%20spread%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cbid%20-%20ask%20spread%3B%2Cc0

Quite a clear difference in favor of Bid-ask.

We see the same thing will google searches:

https://www.google.com/webhp?#q=%22bid-ask+spread%22

https://www.google.com/webhp?#q=%22bid-offer+spread%22

Bid-ask spread: 470,000 results

Bid-offer spread: 107,000 results

any thoughts?


 * From your ngram metric, which I agree is probably the best way to decide, it seems bid-ask spread and bid/offer spread are the two preferred terms Nuvigil (talk) 19:20, 18 July 2016 (UTC)