Here’s the quick hit:👉The market is a place where buyers and sellers come together to trade assetslike stocks, bonds, derivatives, and now even memes (hello GameStop).
đź‘Ą 1.Participants(aka the drama creators)
- Retail investors– You, me, your uncle who thinks every stock is a scam.
- Institutional investors– Mutual funds, pension funds, insurance companies. They move billions like it’s Monopoly money.
- FIIs/FPIs– Foreign investors who enter India like NRIs during weddings and exit faster than your ex.
- Market makers– Entities (often brokers) that provide liquidity. They buy/sell
- continuously so you’re not stuck waiting for a match.
- High-frequency traders (HFTs)– Algorithms on steroids. They trade thousands of times per second just for micro profits.
🏦 2.Exchanges(The actual marketplace)
- NSE / BSEin India
- NYSE / NASDAQin the USThese are platforms where buying and selling happens electronically now, not via shouting like the 80s.
đź’» 3.Technology(aka the real MVP now)
- Order matching engines
- Algo trading systems
- Trading
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