| Understanding Their Role in Your Investments | | | | transaction. |
| Many people think of the stock market as something | | | | When the stock market first got started hundreds |
| mysterious and complex that's better left to experts | | | | of years ago, most of the trades or purchases were |
| in thousand dollar suits. If you have invested some | | | | made in person in open air markets. Usually attended |
| money in the stock market in order to make it grow | | | | by only the wealthiest merchants and bankers of the |
| faster and stronger for your own future wealth, | | | | day, this was usually a selective crowd and all records |
| you've already noticed that it is much more | | | | were kept on paper. As the times and technology |
| successful than high yield savings accounts and | | | | have progressed, the stock market has had to find a |
| certificates of deposit at earning significant returns at | | | | way to answer the needs of millions of different |
| a much faster pace. But do you really know what | | | | traders and thousands of public companies. For that |
| stock traders do and how they're able to earn you | | | | reason, stock traders today can make their |
| money on your money? Here are some insights into | | | | transactions in one of two ways: on the exchange |
| the world of the Wall Street trader that you might | | | | floor, or electronically. |
| find interesting. | | | | Stock traders that work directly on the exchange |
| If you've ever listened to a news program on the | | | | floor are the ones that you've seen in television clips, |
| television or radio, it's likely that you've heard them | | | | shouting and waving bits of paper at other traders |
| talk about stock trading or the amount of stock that | | | | who are shouting and waving. The stock exchange |
| was traded on the market today. And while you | | | | floor is a crowded, chaotic place, but the traders |
| might know that it's better for the market to have | | | | working there are usually comfortable with the noise |
| closed up rather than down, you're probably unsure | | | | and mess. They are able to find other traders looking |
| of the processes that allowed it to do so. Stock | | | | for the stocks they're willing to buy or sell, and they |
| traders, also referred to as stock brokers or dealers, | | | | communicate with signals and buzzwords to make |
| are the people responsible for buying and selling | | | | the trade. Even when you purchase stock |
| stocks on the open market. Although we use the | | | | electronically, a similar match between traders must |
| word trade, make no mistake about the fact that | | | | be made. |
| money is definitely changing hands on every | | | | |