subject: A Short Explanation Of A Stock Exchange Market [print this page] The entity that allows people to trade stocks and securities is referred to as a stock exchange market. This is a vehicle in which people can issue or redeem securities or other financial securities or to pay dividends or income from shares. Commonly traded securities on the stock exchange market include pooled investment products, such as the type banks invest in (mutual funds), stocks, company issued shares and commodities.
If securities are going to be traded, they first need to listed on a stock exchange market. The stock exchange market is now a massive electronic network where people and corporations can trade, purchase and sell stocks relatively quickly.
The modern stock exchange market is based on supply and demand. The more in demand a certain stock is the more valuable it will become. This is how the prices of stocks are determined and may rise or fall, depending upon the demand. There are, of course, other factors that will affect the price of stocks.
Stocks are a way for companies to sell shares in their companies in order to obtain financing to fund the operations of their companies and to expand their business. The people who purchase these stocks are referred to as investors. Once the company is in profit, these profits are paid out to the investors who hold the stocks. The payments that are paid are called dividends.
There are basically two ways that stocks can be traded. One is in a physical location with verbal trading, the other is the more common electronic stock exchange market. Not many people trade in a physical location, as it is much more common to do trading online through various brokerage sites. In order to make a trade, you are generally charged a fee, or some sites may offer a certain number of trades under one all inclusive fee.
