electronic trading
Computerized stock transactions
Electronic trading is the buying and selling of financial instruments through computer networks rather than on physical trading floors.
Orders are matched automatically by electronic systems, enabling faster execution and access to global markets.
Most stock, bond, currency, and commodity trading now happens electronically: Electronic trading has largely replaced the open outcry system.
- derivativesThings derived from another
- order bookRecord of pending trades
- stock exchangeSecurities trading marketplace
- millisecondsThousandths of a second
- split secondInfinitesimal unit of time
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