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Everyday Occurrence Traders Deal With 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.

Aggressive is the term most likely suitable for this kind of environment. As such, traders must have the qualities and characteristics under the belt to better prepare them in handling trade. They must be knowledgeable in understanding the stock market. Experience will gain them bonus points in handling financial loses. Due to that, they will make use of their risk capital which is a pool of funds that they can give up to achieve major financial gains in investments.

Traders should have the ability to think of a strategy to minimize loses. Their strategies will give them an advantage against risks and to gain profits. It may be arbitrage, swing trading, trading news, and mergers and acquisitions. Each strategy have their own accompanying risks and rewards with swing trading having high risks and high rewards. Lastly, they must have the discipline to wait for these strategies to bear fruit. Failures are expected however in the long run, it will eventually gain profits.

The main and only method of communicating in these rooms is open outcry. Here, every trader will shout and use gestures in order to gain attention and to transfer trade information. The environment is very fast paced that if one gets distracted, he will most likely miss pertinent information.

In communicating offers and bids of traders, they have three ways to show it. Firstly, they shout loudly the information of their shares. Secondly, they gesture wildly using their body like waving their arms to get attention. Thirdly, they use hand signals to the other party in arranging a deal. The last method is the tamest and calmest action of the three.

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.

It is common for informal contracts to occur. With all the shouting and wild gestures happening, no one is able to make time to write one. These informal contracts are considered binding and sealed. Trust is implied and implicitly given between traders. Should breach of contract happen then the stock exchange will be affected the next business day.




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