LIMIT ORDER PROTECTION RULE Definition

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LIMIT ORDER PROTECTION RULE, FIINRA Rule 6541, prohibits member firms from "trading ahead" of customer limit orders that a member accepts. Members handling customer limit orders are prohibited from trading at prices equal or superior to that of the customer limit order without also executing that order at the limit price.

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GPRO is Group Practice Reporting Option used within the US government, e.g. Medicare and US DHHS. A "group practice" is defined as a single Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN) with 2 or more individual eligible professionals (EPs) (as identified by individual National Provider Identifier [NPI]) who have reassigned their billing rights to the TIN.

TAKEOVER refers to one company (the acquirer) purchasing another (the target). Such events resemble mergers, but without the formation of a new company.

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