what is meant by "participants within the market trading system"?
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My understaning is that this term refers to 3 groups of people:\n\n1) The stakeholders (investors)\n2) The actuators (those involved in advising, brokering and secureing the transactions.)\n3) The receiving (the companies, funds etc; you are investing in)
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a.Individual citizens who make direct contributions.\nb.Their own political parties.\nc.Interest groups through political action committees.
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Consider that if such a program were to exist using artificial human intelligence or neural networks, and it was successful , then whoever owned the first one would already be the King of the Stock Market.  You're right about program trading which is very short term.  However the stock market is not a pure science and cannot be predicted longer term, with any certainty, using algorithms.  It is actually part statistical science, partly an art, and partly understanding the psychology of the masses.
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An electronic market maker is one where all the trading is done via computers.  There are no floor traders, like the NYSE.  traders sit at an individual market maker and put there buy and sell orders on a terminal.
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"The NYSE trades in a continuous auction format. There is one specific location on the trading floor where each listed stock trades. Exchange members interested in buying and selling a particular stock on behalf of investors gather around the appropriate post where a specialist broker, who is employed by a NYSE member firm (that is, he/she is not an employee of the New York Stock Exchange), acts as an auctioneer in an open outcry auction market environment to bring buyers and sellers together and to manage the actual auction. They do on occasion facilitate the trades by committing their own capital (approximately 10% of the time) and as a matter of course disseminate information to the crowd that helps to bring buyers and sellers together. Most of the time natural buyers and sellers meet in a market that provides efficient price discovery in an auction environment that is designed to produce the fairest price for both parties. The human interaction and expert judgement as to order execution differentiates the NYSE from fully electronic markets. However, in excess of 50% of all order flow is now delivered to the floor electronically."
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A market is a place/medium where buyers and sellers can transact common stock of various entities.
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A stock exchange, where stocks are bought and sold, is considered a market. Equities are shares (or stocks) in a company. Sometimes the company offers shares of itself called the initial public offering, but mostly you are buying and selling shares from other people, not companies. This is why a market is necessary so a buy and sell price for equities (stocks) can be determined.\n\nStocks are offered by sellers at an ASK price. Stocks are requested by buyers at a BID price.\nThis is how a deal for the stocks is negoiated, real time.
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Maybe this is it?\nIt is called Trader's Roundtable, a forum for mechanical system traders. \n\nhttp://www.tradingblox.com/forum/
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The consumer is the demander of a firms products.  The consumer can become a supplier when they sell(supply) their labor to the firms.
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entrepenuership (the selling of items)
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As in trading?\n\ntry strategyrunner
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the dominant player in the marketplace.  i've only seen this applied to microsoft, though i suspect it is not exclusively reserved for them.
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Speculation involves the buying, holding, and selling of stocks, bonds, commodities, currencies, collectibles, real estate, derivatives or any valuable financial instrument to profit from fluctuations in its price as opposed to buying it for use or for income via methods such as dividends or interest. Speculation or agiotage represents one of three market roles in western financial markets, distinct from hedging, long term investing and arbitrage.\n\n\nMost non-professional traders lose money on speculation, while those who do make money tend to become professionals\n\nThe service provided by speculators to a market is primarily that by risking their own capital in the hope of profit, they add liquidity to the market and make it easier for others to offset risk, including those who may be classified as hedgers and arbitrageurs.
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Trade debtors are persons who owe you money. When a person bought goods from you and tell you he will pay you another day it means that he become a debtor. At the same time you become a creditor - a person that let its customers to pay at a later time.
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In investing?\n\nAll human beings are of value to the entire world, for various reasons.\n\nSince this question is in investing, you may have value as a producer, a consumer, or an investor.\n\n\n\nNamaste.
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The stock exchanges play a role, but they really do not have any other influence except that of facilitating the buying and selling of securities. I really don't understand what you mean when you say "consolidate activities."  But if you are referring to the consolidation of the banking sector, it has already begun. For example, JP Morgan & Chase,  JP MorganChase and Bank One.  You get the picture?  The role of the exchange in this situation was to facilitate the merging of shares between these individual banks into one share to be traded on the Stock Exchange.
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The other posters gave very technical definitions, which are true, but can be confusing if you aren't familiar with the term.\n\nLet's say you're looking at IBM stock.  Now, IBM stock trades on more than just the NYSE (there is the AMEX, and the regional exchanges like the Pacific Stock Exchange, Boston Stock Exch, etc.).  So, let's say you're looking at IBM and you notice that IBM is trading at $50.00 on the NYSE, but it's trading at $50.25 on the AMEX.  In arbitrage, you buy IBM stock on the NYSE at $50 and simultaneously sell in ton the AMEX for $50.25, thus locking in a guaranteed $0.25 profit per share.  This is very basic.  You can have situation like in the currency markets where the exchange rates between the US Dollar, Pound and Yen are such that you exchange dollars for pounds, then pounds for yen and then yen back to dollars to take advantage of exchange rate disparities and lock in a profit.\n\nIn the simplest terms, it's buying a security at one place and simultaneously selling it at another place where the price is higher.\n\nIn other words, imagine buying an item on Yahoo auctions for $5.00 and then selling it on eBay for $10.00 (where the going price on Yahoo is $5.00 and the going price on eBay is $10.00).\n\nHope this helps.