What does placing an order mean in stock trading?

To place an order means to buy a stock. The term so-called order placement is a stock exchange term. In the past, shareholders entrusted their help to buy stocks through the salesmen of the stock exchange. The salesman in turn bought the shares as the stockholder intended through the operating system. That time is not modernized enough, usually after buying shares will give the shareholders to play a bill, so there is the word under the order.