Market Maker

Market Maker
Market Maker - Overview
A market maker is a dealer that buys and sells securities for their clients, firms, or their own individual accounts.

Market Maker
A "market maker" is a firm that stands ready to buy and sell a particular stock on a regular and continuous basis at a publicly quoted price.

Market Maker
A dealer in an electronic market, such as the Nasdaq Stock Market (Nasdaq), who is prepared to buy or sell a specific security at its publicly quoted price, is called a market maker.

Market Maker
A market maker is a dealer who acts as a wholesaler (i.e. quotes buy and sell prices to brokers and other clients) for the shares in which he is registered to trade as a principal, ...

Market Maker Spread
What It Is:
A market maker spread is the difference between the bid and ask prices offered by a market maker.

Market Maker
A market maker is a person or a firm which quotes a buy and sell price in a financial instrument or commodity hoping to make a profit or the turn on the spread i.e. the difference between the buying and selling price.

Definition
Market maker
A broker, bank or firm that pledges to provide liquidity by taking the other side of your trade in a given security, currency, or futures contract.
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Definition: A Market Maker is a company that offers buy and sell prices and takes the other side of the customers trade.
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Through ITS, any Broker or Market maker on the Floor of any participating Exchange can reach other participants for an Execution whenever the nationwide quote shows a better price available.

Market Makers
The NASD member firms that use their own capital, research, retail and/or systems resources to represent a stock and compete with each other to buy and sell the stocks they represent.

Market Makers The exchange member firms that use their own capital to represent a stock and compete with each other to buy and sell the stocks they represent. There are over 500 member firms that act as NASDAQ market makers.

Market maker
In the over-the-counter market, a trader responsible for maintaining an orderly market in an individual stock by standing ready to buy or sell shares.

Market maker
Market makers are players in the stockmarket who trade as principals and may actively try to encourage/discourage trading by changing the prices they quote to tempt buyers and sellers into the market.
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Market Maker to Market Maker
The transaction was between two market makers registered in the security in question. This may also include those executed through an inter-dealer broker or a public display system.
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Market Maker
A broker-dealer firm that accepts the risk of holding a certain number of shares of a particular security in order to facilitate trading in that security.

Market maker
In LME terms, a broker who quotes prices for both buying and selling metal or plastics. LME brokers are allowed to make markets to their customers but are not obliged to do so.
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Market makers are more concerned with making deals than making trades
For any type of trading, best execution comprises three essential factors:
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MARKET MAKER - A broker-dealer that holds itself out as willing to make a bid or offer at any time on a particular security or type of security.

Market Maker
A market maker is a person or firm authorised to create and maintain a market in an instrument.
Market Order
An order to buy or sell a financial instrument immediately at the best possible price.

Market Maker: A professional securities dealer or person with trading privileges on an exchange who has an obligation to buy when there is an excess of sell orders and to sell when there is an excess of buy orders.

Market Maker
Also known as dealer or specialist, a market maker is a brokerage or bank that maintains a firm bid and ask price in a security by being ready to buy or sell at publicly quoted prices, maintaining liquidity for that security.

Market Maker - One that consistently makes two way prices, providing both a bid and an offer. Unlike brokers, market makers trade their capital, although they will hedge.

Market Maker - A broker-dealer firm that owns shares of a security and is willing to buy and sell at the quoted bid and ask prices. The firm lists buy and sell prices to attract customers.

MARKET MAKER: Is a dealer who is making a market in currency pairs and provides liquidity displaying a two way price quote.
MARKET ORDER: Is an order at the current market price.

Market maker - An individual or financial institution that provides consistent buy and sell quotations for a particular security or securities.

Market Makers
One of the major differences between The NASDAQ Stock Market and other major markets in the U.S. is NASDAQ's structure of competing Market Makers.

Market Maker
A brokerage that's able to have an ask and bid in the market for any given security to be ready and able to trade at the price. If traded the market maker will supply or receive the given security.

Market maker
A dealer on the LSE who acts as a wholesaler to brokers in shares for which he is registered to trade.
Market reference data
Reference data produced by the LSE which contains specific market related stock details.

Market Maker - A trading firm that will both buy and sell at the current market price, thereby providing liquidity.
Market Order - An order that is executed as soon as possible at the next available market price.

Market maker - Used in the context of general equities. One who maintains firm bid and offer prices in a given security by standing ready to buy or sell round lots at publicly quoted prices.

Market Maker- This is a broker-dealer firm that facilitates the trade of a particular security by dealing on a large amount of them.

Market Maker A broker or bank continually prepared to make a two-way price to purchase or sell for a security or currency.

Market Maker- These industry players work on the Nasdaq exchange, but are not actually at the exchange. Rather, they are large investment companies that participate in the purchase and sale of actual securities.

Market Maker - A dealer who supplies prices and is prepared to buy or sell at those stated bid and ask prices. A market maker runs a trading book.
Market Risk - Exposure to changes in market prices.

Market maker: A firm that buys and sells a particular security for its own account.
NASD: See National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc.

Market Maker - A dealer who regularly quotes both bid and ask prices and is ready to make a two-sided market for any financial instrument.
Market Risk - Exposure to changes in market prices.

Market Makers
Let's say you wanted to go to France to eat some snails. In order for you to transact in the country, you need to get your hands on some euros first by going to a bank or the local foreign currency exchange office.

Market Maker: Market Makers are licensed traders who buy and sell securities (stock and options). They facilitate trade in securities and act as a middleman between brokers.

Market Maker Spread is a difference between the currency buying and selling price, established by a market maker.

Market Maker
Individual who buys and sells NASDAQ traded stocks and performs off-hours NYSE stock trading on behalf of an investor.
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Market Maker
A dealer who maintains an inventory in one or more stocks and undertakes to make continuous two-sided quotes.
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Market Maker - An exchange member whose function is to aid in the making of a market, by making bids and offers for his account in the absence of public buy or sell orders. Several market-makers are normally assigned to a particular security.

MARKET MAKER Active quoter of two way prices for both clients and counterparties.
MATURITY DATE Date on which option matures; when it is either exercised or it expires worthless. Also known as expiration date.

Market Maker
A legal entity that trades for its own account. A market maker must at all times display bid and ask prices, for which minimum quantities and maximum spreads are defined instrument by instrument.

Market Maker - A dealer who specializes in a particular security and will purchase and sell stock from his/her inventory.
Market Order - An order given to a broker to buy or sell securities at the market price ...

Market Maker - Another term for dealer or specialist. In the interest of maintaining orderly trading, a market maker stands ready to trade against the public and therefore to make a market in an issue.

Market Maker
A trader employed by a securities firm who is required to maintain reasonable liquidity in securities markets by making firm bids or offers for one or more designated securities up to a specified minimum guaranteed fill.

Market Maker
A Forex dealer or FX brokerage firm that risks its own capital offering buy and sell quotes in a currency market. One that consistently makes two-way prices, providing both a bid and an offer.
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Market Maker: A dealer willing to accept the risk of holding a particular security in its own account to facilitate trading in that security. They must be prepared to buy or sell stocks from investors at any time.

Market maker
A recognised institution or individual willing to trade certain securities any time that a trader wants to buy or sell.

Market maker
A market maker is when a brokerage, bank or firm maintain a set bid and ask price with a set number of specific securities and when these prices are met must immediately buy or sell these securities from their own account.

Market Maker
A professional securities dealer who has an obligation to buy when there is an excess of sell orders and to sell when there is an excess of buy orders.

Market Maker / MM - This is a firm that conducts every trading of shares between firms or individuals.
Ticker Symbol - This is a unique letter that is based on symbol that is used to represent the stock of the company.

Market makers are well compensated for allowing retail clients to enter the forex market. They take part or all of the spread in all currency pairs traded. In a common example, EURUSD, the spread is typically 3 pips (3/100 of a percent).

Market makers regularly take the market up and down
within their value range so orders placed within it are likely
to be executed. This can cause a problem as whipsaws can ...

market maker
A market maker or specialist is someone (sometimes a computer) who makes a market in a given stock by buying shares from sellers and selling shares to buyers.
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Market maker (MM): this is the most common method, and is where the CFD provider makes the price for the CFD on underlying and takes all orders onto its own book.

Market Maker: intermediary for stocks traded on NASDAQ, and for off-hours trading in NYSE stocks. When you trade NASDAQ stocks, you buy your shares from the market maker. When you sell shares, you sell them to the market maker.

Market maker
Bank or securities house that offers binding bid and ask prices for selected instruments at all times, thus maintaining a market for these titles.

MARKET MAKER. An underwriting firm that stands ready to buy and sell a company's stock and thus make a market where shareholders or prospective
shareholders can dispose of or purchase shares.

See also: Market, Trading, Stock, Exchange, Sell