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Time-Weighted Average Price (TWAP)
An algorithmic trading strategy that executes orders evenly over a specified time period, minimizing market impact by averaging the price across time rather than volume.
Example
“The institutional desk used a TWAP strategy to buy 50,000 shares of MSFT evenly over 2 hours, avoiding a sudden price spike from a single large order.”