Trading

Bringing Securities to the Marketplace

Reading Time: 3 minutes Hello folks, in the previous blog, I had discussed about the role of securities market place in trading. In this blog, I am going to describe you about the process and structure of how to bring securities to the marketplace. In trading, the one of important thing we need to understand is workflow of securities marketplace and how securities are brought to the marketplace. On the Continue Reading

The Role of Securities Market Place in trading

Reading Time: 3 minutes Hello folks, in the previous blog, I had discussed about some essential trading concepts and terminologies. In this blog, I am going to describe you about the structure and components of the Securities market place. In any street market, the goods that sold are manufactured outside of the marketplace and the characters involved are those who visit the marketplace to buy goods. And those who Continue Reading

The essential trading concepts and Terminology

Reading Time: 4 minutes Hello folks, welcome to my trading concepts blog series. In this blog, I will describe and introduce some trading related terminology and its importance in the trade life cycle. Before this, if you would like to explore what is trade lifecycle, can be found in my another blog, “Introduction to the Trade Life Cycle“ For any company in any industry, remaining in control of its Continue Reading

FIX Protocol : Pros and Cons

Reading Time: 2 minutes FIX stands Financial Information Exchange. The protocol is a highly scalable electronic communication protocol to facilitate real time exchange of information related to financial market. It has become the standard method of pre-trade, trade and post-trade communication. Market participants including banks, hedge funds, prime brokers etc, utilise FIX for their own trading means all to connect directly to clients. It is a full-fledged liquidity provider.

Introduction to the Trade Life Cycle

Reading Time: 3 minutes Hello folks, in this blog we will learn about the trade life cycle. So before going into detail, one genuine question comes to mind is What is the Trade life cycle? In the financial market, “trade” means to buy and/or sell securities/financial products. To explain it further, a trade is the conversion of an order placed on the exchange which results in pay-in and pay-out of Continue Reading

Introduction to FIX protocol for Trading

Reading Time: 3 minutes The Financial Information eXchange(FIX) protocol is an electronic communications protocol initiated in 1992 for international real-time exchange of information related to the securities transactions and markets. It was initiated by a group of institutions interested in streamlining their trading processes. These firms believed that they, and the industry as a whole, could benefit from efficiencies derived through the creation of a standard for the electronic Continue Reading