common stock market terms

Common Stock Market Terms

In this article, I will go over some of the common stock market terms.

Stock Market: a way to bring people together to buy and sell shares of stocks, as well as other investments such as bonds and security.

Trading Floor: one way to bring people together to buy and sell shares of stock is through a trading floor. For example, the New York Stock Exchange uses a trading floor were buyers and sellers of stock negotiate their trades face-to-face.

Electronic Exhange: this is where a stock market brings buyers and sellers together electronically, through a computer network, using an electronic exchange. An example of this would be the NASDAQ Stock market.

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