electronic trading

…American stock market that handles electronic securities trading around the world. It was developed by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) and is monitored by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

…communications networks (ECNs) had allowed electronic trading, or e-trading, to alter the investment world. These computerized ECNs made it possible to match the orders of buyers and sellers of securities without the intervention of specialists or market makers. In a traditional full-service or discount brokerage, a customer places an order…

…first major exchanges to adopt electronic trading (1997), abandoning its trading floor for a fully computerized system. In 2000 the TSE became part of a publicly traded company, TSX Group Inc.; two years later the exchange adopted TSX as its abbreviation. In 2008 the TSX Group acquired the derivatives market…