Professional Documents
Culture Documents
1) Broker Market
- buyer and seller of the securities are brought together
by a broker and the trade occurs at that point
- usually composed of national and regional securities
exchanges
- Philippine Stock Exchange – sole broker market in
the Philippines
2) Dealer Market
- buyer and seller are not brought directly together by
a third party
- market makers execute the sell or buy orders
- Two distinct trades: (a) seller sells his securities to a
dealer and (b) buyer buys his securities from a dealer
- ask price – lowest price of a security offered a sale
- bid price – highest proposed price in order for
investors to buy a security
- Investors pay the ask price when purchasing
securities and receives the bid price when selling
them
- Dealers earn profit through spread between bid and
ask prices
- Do not have centralized trading floors
- Consist of many market makers
- Market maker: dealers who create market by
offering to sell/buy securities at ask/bid prices)