Glossary
- Margin
- Margin loan
- Mark to the market
- Market
- Market capitalisation
- Market maker
- Market outperformer
- Market participant
- Market performer
- Market price
- Market segment
- Market underperformer
- Market value
- Market-order
- Matching
- Maturity (warrants)
- MBI (management buy-in)
- MBO (management buy-out)
- MDAX
- Mezzanine money
- Midcap Market Index
- Minimum trading unit
- Momentum Indicator
- Money laundering
- Money market
- Monthly report
- Mortgage Bond (Pfandbrief)
- Moving average
- Multiple voting rights
Market maker
Bank or securities trading house that quotes binding buy and sell prices for a security.
Market makers guarantee that a security can be traded on an ongoing basis, thereby ensuring the liquidity and viability of the market. Through their readiness to step in as a counterparty at any time, market makers compensate for the inconsistent order flows of investors and stabilize the market when temporary imbalances occur. They are usually assigned to support trading in inactive stocks.
At FWB® Frankfurter Wertpapierbörse (the Frankfurt Stock Exchange), market makers are known as Designated Sponsors.
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