Surviving Situations In The Trading Rooms

By Gregory Stevens


Stock exchange or the buy and sell of stocks occur in the stock market. This financial market is where business minded and financially able people gather to invest. Each of them studies the rise and falls of stocks each business day. They scrutinize each angle to make their investments grow substantially. Financial trades occur in trading rooms which some was not made aware of.

Securities are being bought and sold to traders like commodities, foreign exchange and stocks. They are the representative of their own clients in doing trade in these rooms. Telephone, online markets and the like are the trades occurring here.

In surviving this environment, the trader must arm himself with few characteristics which will prepare him during the aggressive moments. Knowledge is power and that is their weapon in understanding the market. They must also have the needed experience in the trade. Their experience will let them prepare for any financial loses and will only use their risk capital. This is called such because they are expendable funds in order to gain large financial 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.

The deal is considered as an out trade if no match has been found. There are only two reasons why this occurs. The first one is that they have not come up to the same understanding. The second is an error on the agreement made by one of them. Before the following trading day, they have corrected any errors and have resolved the issue.

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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