The national best bid and offer (NBBO) of a stock is the highest protected bid and the lowest protected offer across all exchanges, with the total size displayed at each of those prices.
Exemplos
Example 9.5 (Three venues)
Venue X shows (300 by 500 shares), venue Y (200 by 100), venue Z (400 by 900). The NBBO is , 600 by 600: the bid from Y and Z, the offer from X and Y. A broker that fills a client’s market purchase at 10.03 while X and Y offer at 10.02 has traded through two protected quotations. If a fourth venue bids 10.015 for 60 shares, nothing changes: an odd lot is not protected. The NBBO is the benchmark of every execution-quality statistic of Chapter 10; it is also, as we now see, not a single thing.