Continuous Trading
Categories: Trading, Stocks, Accounting
The only thing that the terrible movie Wall Street 2 got right is its slogan: Money Never Sleeps.
Money is prepared to shift hands at any time, as long as the price is right for an asset. Which is why continuous trading, as a process...exists.
Continuous trading is a feature of most U.S. markets, and provides the instant completion and execution of trading orders for stocks and other assets. The New York Stock Exchange, NASDAQ, and many other U.S. exchanges (when they're open) engage in the immediate execution of buy and sell orders as they come in. Buy orders and sell orders are matched and traded.
Continuous trading is different than batch trading, which requires delays as orders await execution in groups.