It regulates the trading of securities such as stocks and bonds. And tries to prevent people with inside information.
There is one government agency - Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) and two Self Regulating Organizations (SROs) who mandate or administer regulations for stocks and bonds: NASD (They recently changed the name to FINRA) and MSRB. * SEC regulates stocks, treasury securities, and municipal bonds * FINRA administers regulations by SEC for Over The Counter stocks (e.g., the stocks traded on NASDQ). * MSRB administers regulations by SEC in relations to Municipal Stocks. * Corporate bonds and notes are hardly regulated, since thy mostly trade in Over The Counter markets.
Commodity futures trading is different from investing in stocks and bonds because it deals with natural resources like gold instead of businesses and companies.
Stocks and bonds can be purchased via one's bank. There are also companies that offer online trading where one can buy stocks and bonds. These include Hargreaves Lansdown, for example.
There are many websites that allow people to trade stocks and bonds online. eTrade and Zecco are two sites that will allow you to do so.
Proprietary trading is also known as PPT or "Prop trading" and occurs when a company trades on stocks, bonds and/or currencies. It is closely linked with banking.
stocks are stocks and bonds are bonds . flatout -ashes
They do in fact issue stocks and bonds.
While there are many options for buying municipal bonds, I prefer to use e-trade for trading stocks and purchasing bonds. The commissions are very low and they make it easy to manage your money.
The Securities and exchange Commission (SEC) was established on June 6, 1934.
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"Trend trading is a strategy of trying to capture gains through the analysis of an asset's momentum in a particular direction. This is now being applied to assets, stocks, bonds, adn other forms of stock trading."