Question

I want the background of london stock exchange including (operating history, organazintoin and trading process)

Answer 1

London stock exchange is the primary stock exchange of UK and one of the largest stock exchanges in the Europe and the world. It’s history dates back to the 15th century but in the late 20th century the regional exchanges were merged to form one stock exchange which was later renamed as London stock exchange. The London stock exchange, similar to other exchanges provides the facility to buy and sell securities to investors across the world not just in UK. They have diversified product base, ranging from equities to commodities to currency to derivatives. FTSE 100 is the index. In terms of the market capitalization of the companies listed, their total market cap is more than 5 trillion dollars. It provides different types of facilities to company like IPO, FPO and for investors they do have stock screener, trading simulator where they can experience the live trading, the different types of companies listed submit their quarterly financial report, investors can access that from there. Besides FTSE 100, there are also many other types of Index like FTSE 250, FTSE 350, FTSE ALL share etc. The London stock exchange in terms of technology is one of the most developed exchanges in the world. Besides trading platform and they also have taken initiative to educate investors about how to invest in the market. In terms of trading process, investors can either process their order through brokers or direct aceess to the market. DMA (direct acces market) is quite an expensive route so most investors s choose to go through the broker route. You place your order through the platform provided by your brokwr and you can buy or sell stocks or other financial products.