Chapter 7 Flashcards
Two broad segments of Stock Markets:
- The Organized Stock Exchange
- The Over-the-Counter (OTC) Exchange
principal objective of listing
provide liquidity and marketability
market in which national, state and local governments are the primarily borrowers of funds for highways, education, welfare and other public activities
Public Financial Market
Banks
Insurance Companies
Financial Intermediaries
PSE other term
Pamilihan Sapi ng Pilipinas
buying and selling of shares, currency, or other financial instruments in a single day. the intention is to profit from small price fluctuations - sometimes traders hold shares for only a few minutes.
DAY TRADING
a method of buying shares that involves the day trader borrowing a part of the sum needed from the broker who is executing the transaction
margin-trading
involves selling securities to the general public
Public Offerings
where securities are traded after between investors after securities are sold to public
Financial mangers are given feedback about their performance
SECONDARY MARKET
stock market is known as
barometer of the company’s economy
What Financial Markets Do?
- Raising Capital
- Commercial Transactions
- Price Setting
- Asset Valuation
- Arbitrage
- Investing
- Risk Management
What Financial Markets Do?
In countries with poorly developed financial markets, commodities and currencies may trade at very different prices in different location. As traders in financial markets attempt to profit from this divergences, prices move towards a uniform level, making the entire economy more efficient.
- Arbitrage
POTENTIAL DAY TRADERS SHOULD BE KNOWLEDGEABLE OF THE FOLLOWING
-Market Data
-Scalping
-Margin Trading
-Bid-offer spread
Stock Exchange Supplies: Regulates company’s behaviour through requirements called
listing agreement.
-physical location where stocks buying and selling transactions take place
- The Organized Stock Exchange
stocks are traded on an organized exchange. firms must meet certain minimum criteria.
Listed stocks
What Financial Markets Do?
Market prices offer the best way to determine the value of a firm or of the firm’s asset, or property
- Asset Valuation
What Financial Markets Do?
For firms to build new facilities, replace machinery or expand business in other ways
- Raising Capital
What Financial Markets Do?
Futures, options and other derivatives contracts enable markets to attach a price to risk and they also provide protection against many types of risks such as:
Possibility that foreign currency will lose value against the domestic currency before an export payment is received
risk management
link buyers and sellers by buying and selling securities and stated prices
Dealers
Securities of an entity may be listed at any of the ff. stages:
-at the time of public issue of shares/debentures
-at the time of rights issue of shares/debentures
-at the time of bonus issue of shares/debentures
-shares issued on amalgamation or merger.
strategy in which traders hold their share or financial asset for just few minutes or even seconds
scalping
an entity ( a corporation or mutual organization) which is the business bringing buyers and sellers of stocks and securities together.
Stock Exchange
What Financial Markets Do?
Financial Markets provide price discovery based upon the prices at which individuals are willing to buy and sell them
- Price Setting