Sunday 28 April 2019

Learn The Trade In Trading Rooms

By Gregory Stevens


The stock market is a financial market where buying and selling of stocks took place. Some financially able and business minded people like to invest in the stock market. They study the stock market each business day. They took notice of which fund is falling and which is rising in prices. What the majority was not aware of is that all the financial trades happen in the trading rooms.

These rooms are where traders buy or sell securities like foreign exchange, stocks, and commodities. They work for their respective clients. They either do trade via phone calls, online markets, and the like.

Some characteristics must be found in the traders to survive this aggressive environment. They need to have the qualities to prevail despite the situation. Being knowledgeable in this area will help them understand the volatility of the stock market. Having past experience with it will allow them to better handle loses. Risk capital will be utilized because they can give the funds up to gain profits in financial investments.

Strategizing is the most important quality that they should have. It gives them an advantage over others in minimizing financial loses and evading risks. They could either adapt trading news, mergers and acquisition, arbitrage, or swing trading in to their disposal. Of these, only the last one can give high rewards and high risks to traders. They also must have discipline to not get mentally affected by failures and financial loses. It happens from time to time. Financial gains and profits will eventually materialize.

Open outcry method is the only and main method of communication in doing business in these rooms. As the name suggests, traders shout and use hand gestures to get attention and transfer information. This is a fast paced environment where if one blinks, he will miss the vital information.

To communicate their offers and bids, there are three specific ways to do this. The first is for them to scream really loud to share information. Second is wildly waving their arms and body to grab attention. Lastly are hand signals which are the tamest action when compared to the first two.

Deals are made between the two traders. Upon agreement, the clearing member of both parties will inform the clearinghouse about their deal. The clearinghouse will try to match their deals with each other and if it does, the traders will claim acknowledgement on the said deal.

If not, an out trade occurs. This happens because of two reasons which are no understanding have been made between them and when errors have been made on the agreement. They get to try and resolve this before the next trading day. It may be costly however they are able to find a way to resolve the deal.

Almost all the time, informal contracts between traders occur. The fact that no one has the time to write one due to the aggressive and busy environment has made it legal and binding within the room. One key ingredient that makes this binding is the trust that each trader gives and receives from their fellows. If they do not honor their deals, this might affect the state of stock market the following day.




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