Beginners Guide To NASDAQ
Posted on Tuesday, March 17th, 2009 | In InvestingThe NASDAQ though we know it as an exchange is not an exchange, and works like an automated mechanism where buyers and sellers can meet. The NYSE works on the system called double auctions where in the highest bidding buyer competes with other buyers and the lowest bidding seller bids against other sellers.NASDAQ though not very old has give tough competition to NYSE.The technology focus has helped NASDAQ some inherent strengths.
In NASDAQ much like in the real world each broker or the dealer as you may want to call it has an inventory of shares which they are willing to sell and that means that they can easily assume that their inventory along with other broker’s inventory will be taken care of. In effect each order if fulfilled based on how much inventory or shares you are holding.
As an example I will show how a limit order works and how a market order works. Limit means that you impose a limit on the price you are willing to pay for the stock. In the market order you are willing to pay any price which is currently in the market. For example if you need to buy 1000 shares then the dealer will give 500 shares at a price you quoted but the next 500 shares you will get at a price which can be anything based on the price the dealer procures the additional shares for you.
NASDAQ has a way of providing you with the bid offer, ask size and size of each offer by way of SOES which is the Small Order Execution System. A broker who helps create a market for buyers and sellers is known as the market maker.
As small investors NASDAQ is the one which provides a very option for trading apart from American Stock Exchange.
The there is OTCBB which trades in only penny stocks, but trading on OTCBB can be very very expensive and very volatile.
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