Technology And The Stock Market

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Markets used to open at standard local times. This would cause an American trader to sleep through the majority of a Japanese trading day. With more online and afterhours trading, investors have more access to markets so that American traders can still trade Japanese stocks. This is also helped by an expansion of most market times. Afterhours trading is available from most online trading firms.
For investing specialists, technology provides operational capability for handling more stocks and greatly increased volumes of trading. Specialists can follow additional sources of market information, and multiple trading and post-trade functions, all on “one screen” at work or at home. They are also given interfaces to “upstairs” risk-management systems. They also have flexiblity to rearrange their physical workspaces, terminals and functional activities.
Floor brokers are helped with supports for an industry-wide effort to compare buy/sell contracts for accuracy shortly after the trade. ...

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periods. The technology also supports the visibility of operations and information, and regulated auction-market procedures, which listed companies expect from their “primary” market in support of their capital-raising activities and their shareholder services.
Institutions get enhanced information flow from the trading floor, using new wireless technologies, as to pre-opening situations, depth of market, and indications of buy/sell interest by other large traders. Also supported are the fair, orderly, and deeply liquid markets which institutions require in order to allocate the funds they have under management whether placing orders in size for individual stocks (block orders) or ...

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