execution risk

execution risk definition - finance
The risk that a transaction wonÂ’t be executed within the range of recent market prices or within the stop order limits that have been set by an investor. Execution risk exists on virtually all financial instruments.

Webster's New World Finance and Investment Dictionary Copyright © 2003 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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