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What is Queue position?
Your place in line among resting orders at the same price. Under FIFO, orders ahead of yours fill first.
In context
Without MBO data, nobody knows your exact queue position. Platforms that display "queue ahead" are estimating, using assumptions such as "cancellations happen at the back of the queue" or "cancellations are spread proportionally". These are models, not measurements.
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