The Italian Stock Exchange: What is it and How it Works
The stock market is a market based on specific rules where certain goods are exchanged, we can define " financial instruments ". The goods traded in stock exchange are mainly shares of the share capital of a company, but not only. Compared to the past in the stock market there is anything physical: the hall screaming, stockbrokers are a distant memory ... and now since 1994, the entire list is computerized.
Hence the possibility, now known, the Online Trading , a tool that allows you to operate on the stock market to small investors.
Usually, when it comes to stock market, they immediately think of the actions, but the bag is actually a diversified market, where financial instruments are treated more and more complex. Precisely because of this wide variety of products, it was necessary to allocate time in the stock market into segments, according to the logic of "a market for every type of financial instrument." Regulated markets operating in our country are different.
Depending on financial products traded, the bag is divided into operational sectors: 1) (MTA - the MTA), in which exchange their shares listed on the Stock Exchange. In turn, this market is divided into: a. Blue Chip, b. Star, c. Standard, d. MTA International, and. MTF (Electronic Market Funds). 2) SEDEX, 3) After Hours (TAH), 4) MOT (Electronic Market of Government Securities and Bonds), 5) Option Contracts (MTR), relating to shares, convertible bonds, warrants and stock options listed, 6) IDEM (Italian Derivatives Market).
New Market. It is a market that caters to enterprises with more content with innovative and high growth prospects. It also allows you to give high visibility to European listed companies, as the New Market is part of the circuit Euro.NM, alliance of stock markets for innovative firms.
Counter market. It's the market they are traded stocks, bonds and warrants which are not admitted to official stock exchange trading: the market presents criteria for listing on less stringent than the main market, but still offers the same guarantee to the investor the biggest market.
IDEM (Italian Derivatives Market). IDEM derivatives are treated as contracts, futures and options contracts having as their underlying instruments such as interest rates, currencies ...
Block market. In it there are packets of action, in fact "block", ie with quantities so high that their trading on the stock market quotations main shift (upwards in the event of a large purchase order, toward the down in case of sale): To avoid this situation is expected to exchange these packets in that market.
Third Market. It is an unregulated market. Trading, in fact, occur "spontaneously" in a room at the Milan Stock Exchange, where brokers exchange securities not yet listed on the regulated market.
The possibilities for those who want to invest some of their savings in the stock market, divrse are: 1) be an individual investor and act independently (through trading, the most immediate and cost-leaning to his bank), 2) choose the road asset management, relying on an investment professional (you can subscribe to shares of a fund or trust an asset management).
Source: Article Marketing Italy
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