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What is a 'book' in the context of trading?

• grumpyprole 3y ago
  Just an old name for a portfolio of transactions
• 0x264 3y ago
  Set of related trades.
• jll29 3y ago
  short for "orderbook" - the set of pending trades pertaining to a client account
  • bitcharmer 3y ago
    No, it's most often not related to any particular client. Rather the book is a list of all buy and sell orders that didn't match sitting there and waiting for someone to take the other side of the trade