| Are you looking for a stock market definition that is | | | | exchange. Today there are over a 140 physical |
| easy to understand and written in plain English? Well | | | | exchanges that buy and sell trillions of shares 24 |
| keep reading because that is exactly what I am | | | | hours a day. Here are some of the biggest. |
| going to give you in this article. | | | | · New York stock exchange (NYSE) - The largest |
| Here is the plain English sock market definition. The | | | | physical stock exchange in the world |
| stock market is a term referring to the centralized | | | | · American stock exchange (AMEX) - The rival of |
| physical locations and computer networks at which | | | | he NYSE in size and reputation |
| the business of trading stocks is conducted. | | | | · Regional exchanges - Fourteen exchanges located |
| Before there was money people used to trade items | | | | around the united states |
| to each other. If I had a goat and you wanted it you | | | | · Over the counter - A term for stocks traded over |
| could trade me three chickens and we'd both go off | | | | a computerized network called the national market |
| happy. Eventually people realized that they could do | | | | system (NMS) |
| this far more efficiently by regularly showing up at | | | | · International exchanges - Stock exchanges in |
| one designated location where everybody brought | | | | other countries |
| something to trade. | | | | · Other markets - Markets where the trading of |
| When money was invented, these trades evolved | | | | financial instruments other than stock such as futures |
| into purchases and sales. Thousands of years later | | | | is conducted. |
| this concept is still alive, people who want to buy and | | | | I hope this stock market definition helps to clear up |
| sell stocks show up at the same place - the stock | | | | any confusion you may have had. |