What are 'market makers'? - MoneyWeek Investment Tutorials

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[@Fred-zt5ky]

No, Citadel is not a market maker. They’re a hedge fund.

[@chocolatecoveredgummybears]

​@@Fred-zt5kylol citadel is the largest mm in the US stock exchange

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This is the best explanation I've seen so far. Thanks!

[@marygrant9698]

By far the best explanation of market makers I've found on YT.

[@viksra]

3:22 Says "X Y Zed", writes down "X Y 2" then corrects it to "X 4 2"

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[@MoneyWeekVideos]

ConfusedLad27 - yes in liquid shares an order book can electronically match buy and sell orders provided the prices agree. Market makers are increasingly used in less liquid markets or markets where there is no central exchange (e.g. the bonds market).

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Hey man - this was very helpful. I feel like I knew most of this, but you certainly helped fill in some gaps. :) Thank you.

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Wow, what a great explanation of market makers. This is exactly what information I was looking for when I clicked this video.

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[@mites7]

I have an interview lined up for a trading company here in chicago that does derivative market making, thanks for the video, it was a good concise overview of what I'll be expecting

[@nicksmith7519]

the example you refer to would be someone who wanted to sell below the bid price. in which case their order would be filled above your ask price to buy.

[@Ninja-tj5fd]

Most of Trading Educators run their courses on behalf of Market Makers (Brokers), these educators themselves don't make a profit by doing trading but they encourage their students to do trading !

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Very simple but one of the best explanations I've seen for average people.

[@zdrux]

How do market makers get their shares? Are they required to maintain a pool of some of the most illiquid shares on the exchange to provide liquidity? Do they sell naked shorts if you want to buy some shares that no market maker has?

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[@cork6d]

This is for market orders. You can submit limit orders instead. You may not get a fill, but if you do it'll be at your price, not a market maker's.

[@DannyOvox3]

but is the real market price being decided by a mathematical function in the exchange algorithms or who makes the market price given there is a big spread for example?

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[@VicSMeIsTeR]

Great overview. Much obliged for taking time on this topic. Cheers!

[@jasvidchannel]

Thanks for the video, it's very helpful. I'm a little confused about how market makers deal with the risk posed by holding securities in inventory. Is it simply reflected in the spread offered?

[@davidpearce4838]

Excellent explanation. Thanks🙂.

[@klaasterpstra6119]

Excellent explanation!

[@crogy1]

Great video firstly! However, is there not only 1 market maker per stock? If for example there were loads, would'nt things get reali confusuing as to the numbers of trades going through. Also are Market Makers decided by the company before their initial public offering?

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[@EdenSignal]

Well explained Tim, also if a share has very low trade volume the spread can get quite ridiculous.

[@rodctenis]

@MarketDepth Maybe we should discuss this in the derivates video. Let me give you more information: the way to package debt is very particular. Basically, the loans are sliced in three: the best part (the first payments, less likely to default) the medium and the low. All of them are pooled with other similar pieces of debt to create a single package. When the crisis of 2008 started, trying to get a valuation of these assets was almost impossible.

[@Jackson-nx5qp]

Hello, I loved the video... very helpful! What are the market maker differences between NYSE (or some other big exchange) and the OTC market makers?

[@stefanoruns]

Maybe a dumb comment. If I want to buy share of XYZ, why would I buy at 120, when I know the market maker is buying at 100? Why can't I buy at 100 directly to those willing to sell at 100 to the MM? Btw: you're a fantastic teacher I fully agree

[@Leandrasjones]

hi, great video, one question, you are saying the more market players the narrower the spread, because more players mean there is more room for you to negotiate how much you want to pay?

[@mvb1985]

sometimes i see out of market trades? how is that possible? and why is it that i often see the same bid and ask numbers (like 176 stocks listed for dozens of time in the book) ?

[@oodles86]

I wonder too

[@Kkim0830]

I’m really wondering how active ETFs are managed and how market makers hedge their position. please please let me know!!

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[@gtmopl9048]

Lets suppose that in one specific security there is one market marker set by the stock market system to make a market. Also lets suppose that a typical public trader has the information about the bid and offer prices the market maker offers and lets try to figure out what will happen if that trader trys to compete with the market maker. It seems that he is having three options. We cannot analyze any options including any diversification in the offer price because we suppose that the trader doesn't own the particular stock at the beginning. So option one is to give a lower bid price than the market maker,second option is to offer the same bid price and last option to give a higher bid price than the market maker. Option one makes no sense since no one would sell his shares at the traders lowest bid price as soon as he can see that the market maker offers a higher buing price. Option three seems competitive enough at a first glance since an owner of a stock that wills to sell his stock will be happy to accept a buy offer higher than the one that the market maker offers. The trader now can offer a lower selling price for the stock he purchased than the selling price the market maker offers. So it seems that the market player is beaten. But this holds only as soon as the diffence in the bid price of the trader and the bid price of the trader is lower than the spread caused of the market maker. So it follows that the market maker can beat option three by decreasing his offer price and obviously his profits in order to eliminate option 3 three. I think that a rational trader would adopt option three, Option 2 now seems to overcome the problem thas was hiding behind option three since the market maker cannot decrease enough his offer price to beat the trader for the reason that both him and the trader bought the stock at the same price. Of course he can lower his potential profits by decreasing the offer price BUT the trader can adjust to that by additional decreasing his own profits. The result will only decrease the spread in a pure competitive enviroment. Now since i dont know almost anything about the stock market, i have a question at this point. Lets suppose that two persons owns 10 shares of a specific stock at lets say that they both want to sell all of their 10 stocks at the same price. So they both seek for a buyer that wants to buy at that price the stocks they possess. LETS ALSO SUPPOSE THAT THOSE TWO PERSONS ARE THE ONLY ONES THAT WANT TO SELL THAT SPECIFIC STOCK AT THAT SPECIFIC PRICE AND NO ONE ELSE WANTS TO. Okay now lets say that a buyer appears that wants to buy that stock at that SPECIFIC PRICE BUT he wants to buy ONLY ONE STOCK. Question is from whom seller will he buy? The answer to that question is really important to the above scenario of the trader and the market player. Because then i will be able to think about what will happen if the market player and the trader that follows option two will do in the case that no one of them is willing to decrease their profits any more and both of them stays at a certain offer price. Of course that is only a simple situations because it is not taking under account the fluctations in the price taking place meanwhile but its a first step to understand better the concept around market makers.

[@rodctenis]

@MarketDepth Are assets because the "packaged debt" is giving access to the cashflow generated by the "packaged debt". Securitization is the name of the packaging industry in this case. Banks give the loan, then they package several loans, they sell the package and get resources to lend money again. The buyer, get the cashflow at a discount from present value taking the risk of the underlying assets of these derivatives.

[@dennistedder3384]

Very good primer or refresher! Thanks.

[@djnaydee]

Great vid

[@nicksmith7519]

furthermore, if it is in market maker's interests to buy when the spread is larger, why not make the price go down of shares as well in order that people panic and sell? or is that what happens anyway...

[@Phantom-mk4kp]

A question do online brokers hold stock to sell to their clients and visa versa. meaning your purchase does not involve a market maker

[@Infinite917]

This video is fantastic - thanks for uploading!

[@nicksmith7519]

what stops market makers colluding then to keep the bid offer spread big then and "sharing" the profit?

[@nickroyal8619]

Great explanation, my thanks. So if a client placed a limit sell order at 110p, would it complete, or would the price have to rise 10p until bid price is 110p and offer price 130p (assuming spread remains constant)? I.e. does the market maker always protect their margin!?

[@johnholme783]

Thanks for the info, that was Crystal clear!

[@AnkurSethi108]

How do market makers hedge their directional risk. Do they start out with zero shares and sell shares they don't have and then let people buy those shares later? What if large orders come in, do they take it and hope to balance it out later?

[@gulbudak1]

So, Why do people trade with market makers and not with 'No desk deal' model dealers? What are the advantages to trade with an Market maker?

[@alarmedmutant]

Thank you for explaining market makers using fictional "SHAKES" of the stock "X42." :)

[@zee339]

so is a market maker a job, occupation, title, of a specific person or just someone willing to deal in the market?

[@idohadad8882]

Awesome lecture. You did an amazing job

[@TunaDumpling]

6:56 Are market makers also involved in futures markets?

[@art9rum3]

Great news now Federa has introduced Market Making for transacting homes

[@Fingaphunk3000]

Great video...very clear and helpful, thanks

[@chrislow123]

If you buy from a MM but they haven’t been able to buy any, how do they deliver the shares that they don’t have??

[@rotemberger]

very good tutorial. clear and simple.

[@wisewolf225]

Explained perfectly, thanks

[@benoboro20]

thank you so much you are very good at explaining it !

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[@nicksmith7519]

or is there "any" obligation to price the share correctly. Ie will a market maker (s) be punished for pushing a share price down so low that it unfairly represents the market cap? because i have seen this many times...

[@Kingelow1]

Great explanation thank you !

[@IIIIALBYIIII]

Thank you! Content and education 👌

[@davidalen9279]

excellent explanation. thank you sir.

[@kingmike40]

Your "XYZ" looks like "X42".

[@jiansenxmu]

kingmike40 not just looks like, it is😂

[@meetbhavsar1072]

Thank you sir🎉

[@lihlelimama7466]

What's the name of the spread around 6:06???

[@dannygolds4315]

any videos or book recommendation it will really help

[@yomajo]

Where does MMs get their shares from? Say in a bull market no one if willing to sell their shares and there is a lot of buying power from investors. What happens when MMs sell all of their shares?

[@PeakTorque]

IN practice it doesn't really happen. IN a bull run the MM will start accumulating float of their own at better prices than investors. If the situation gets desperate then they may tree shake and manipulate the price action to scare people in to selling.

[@JamesPossible]

great explanation =)

[@tomarintomarin9520]

thank you thank you!

[@futaomi]

of course, if you find a person who is willing to sell for £1.05, you can buy it for £1.05. The problem is finding the person. Usually you don't know anyone, so you have to ask a broker. The broker knows someone who sells for £1.05, so he says to you 'I can sell you for £1.15'. After all, the broker is no different to us. He is an employee working for his salary in a stock exchange company and he needs to make some money too!

[@Darker_Void_Scientist]

I feel these market makers are now complex computer programs.

[@remnant.watchman]

Thanks for the info

[@PrabhuramSundaram]

Oh yeah, I forgot! A big thanks for everything! These things can't be explained better than how you have done. Fantastic.

[@dv8silencer]

Great content.

[@Abeguzman]

Thank you for the video!

[@aaronanderson5645]

Beautiful video

[@apvlab]

thanks

[@BrotherAbrahamMuhamm]

Very helpful

[@rbr4115]

The "spread" may be 20, but themarket maker's profit is not 20 but 10. It is 10 because the true market price is in between 100 and 120. So the actual market price is 110, but the ask price is 120, 10 profit. Likewise, the market price is 110, but the bid is 100. 10 loss for you, but 10 profit for the broker.

[@patanjalihardikar5246]

Correct,but you buy once and sell once, so you are loosing half the spread on each side

[@JC-gx8pq]

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[@henryssurfshowcase]

Hi , why do the spreads go wider after hours, and how is that calculated?

[@Jay-fe7dc]

henryssurfshowcase less volume in after hours trading.

[@wankhairulanuar1784]

MM sell 120p, buy 100p Trader buy 120p, sell 100p

[@iexist6021]

It’s a love/hate with Mr. Market Maker.

[@oodles86]

Could a MM just be someone flipping lots of shares?

[@xxbigpimpin6969]

So market makers hold an inventory? Are they like dealers?

[@jordanmole6298]

it's not the commisions that kils profits, it's the spread

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[@sizzelot]

I dont really get why there needs to be a market maker. Why cant the market make its own price without a middleman?

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I don´t know why I´m thinking of Christian Bale when I see this guy!?

[@bergerolivier6657]

thx Sir!

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I have been trading from quite some time in share market but i learnt something today. thanks

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wow its amazing to see other investors of George ,am gladly on my way to millions.

[@GreenspudTrades]

I still don't understand how the market makers could do this profitably.

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So basically currency exchange points are market makers.

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