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zero-plus tick investment & finance definition

A Securities and Exchange Commission rule that says that a short sale (a sale of stock that the trader doesn’t own) can occur only if the last transaction price was unchanged from the transaction price directly before it, but higher than the last different sale price.

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The sale of a security when the price is the same as the security's preceding sale price but is above the last different sale price. A short sale of a security is permitted on a zero-plus tick.
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