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Market Makers

What is it? The exchange member firms that use their own capital to represent a stock and compete with each other to buy and sell the stocks they represent. There are over 500 member firms that act as NASDAQ market makers. One of the major differences between The NASDAQ Stock Market and other major markets in the US is Nasdaqs structure of competing market makers. Each market maker competes for customer order flow by displaying buy and sell quotations for a guaranteed number of shares. Once an order is received, the market maker will immediately purchase for or sell from its own inventory, or seek the other side of the trade until it is executed, often in a matter of seconds.

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