The Stock Market System
The stock market system is an avenue for the trading of shares
of stock of listed corporations. As a corporation is formed, its
initial shareholders are able to acquire shares of stock from
the point of subscription when a company is created. When a
company starts to be traded to the public, the primary market
comes in where those who subscribe to the initial public
offering (IPO) takes on the shares of stock sold from point of
IPO. When those who bought into a company at IPO point of view
decides to sell their shares of stock to other people, they can
do so by going to the stock market.
The stock market is a secondary market for securities trading
wherein original or secondary holders of a company's shares of
stock can sell their stocks to other individuals within the
frame work of the stock market system.
The stock market has buyers of stocks or those who wants to own
a part of the company but wasn't able to do so during the
initial public offerings made by the company to the public when
it has decided to list itself as a publicly listed company. The
secondary market or the stock market allows other individuals to
sell shares of the company when the initial shareholders may
have realized that they want to sell their shares after gaining
either significant profit or realized significant loss from
point of acquiring a company from its IPO price.
As the stock market has developed and progressed over the years,
the way shares of stock are transferred from one individual to
another has become more complicated and more challenging to be
regulated. Technology has aided in providing more efficient ways
of transactions. Front and backend solutions are put into place
that helps direct the exchange of shares of stock in timely and
secure manner.
Public education over how the stock market works is one of the
primary concerns of the investing public in order to promote the
trading activities of the stock market to other individuals who
may also benefit from doing transactions over this secondary
type of equities market.
With the abundance of relevant company information on
performance of publicly listed companies, this information will
help the investors to become more aware of the directions of the
companies where they have share of stocks on and this will also
aid them in directing their investment strategies.