NASDAQ's Rich History

NASDAQ is short for "National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations." It is an American stock exchange. NASDAQ is the biggest electronic computer screen based equity securities buying and selling market in the United States and the second largest after market capitalization in the world. Any person involved in dealing with stocks and trading will want to learn about NASDAQ.

Through this organization, the stocks being purchased and sold in the stock market are sent to the traders in the form of a computer program. This helps the dealers to make use of real-time quotes for improved buying and or selling assessments. NASDAQ trading is done online, which means there is no physical trading done.

NASDAQ is the foremost electronic stock market in the world. It was started in the year 1971. NASDAQ has become the most successful over-the-counter stock exchange trading system. In 1987, NASDAQ certified SOES as an electronic system for dealers to enter their trades, restoring the older system of making phone calls for trading shares and stocks. In the year 1992, NASDAQ in association with the London Stock Exchange became the leading securities market with a global link. NASDAQ is the biggest electronic stock exchange in the United States and is headquartered in New York City. NASDAQ that handles the national stock exchange also looks into the coordination of eight other stock exchanges right through Europe and takes care of one-third part of the stock exchange in Dubai and UAE.

NASDAQ lists more than 3,000 securities for business organizations. There are about three dozen nations incorporated with NASDAQ on behalf of just about every business worldwide. It is interesting to note that more than 300 groups of business organizations listed with NASDAQ are non U.S. companies. In order to meet the requirements and become certified to be listed with the NASDAQ, a business organization is required to be registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission and should include at least three economic firms that operate as stockbrokers and meet the requirements with regards to assets, shareholders and shares.

NASDAQ enhances the contest by permitting numerous market contributors as well as traders, brokers and others to trade. At present, most of the new stocks are being traded on NASDAQ and this also involves retail, infrastructure, economic areas, media, technology and more.
Functioning of NASDAQ

NASDAQ is a programmed coordination that deals in stocks. On the spot quotes are made available for securities because NASDAQ does not need to rely on a trading floor, which is the traditional way of dealing with stock exchange pricing. NASDAQ is also integrated into the over-the-counter stock market. As a result of this, when trading and selling stocks a client's stockbroker can go through the quotes and feed stock quote information for the selected stock into the computer. The computer finds the best price on the stock and the business transaction is completed. NASDAQ stock pricing and exchange can also be carried out by using the telephone or through the company's stock account.