Market maker指的是做市商,做市商是指在证券市场上,由具备一定实力和信誉的证券经营法人作为交易商,不断向公众投资者报出某些特定证券的买卖价格,双向报价并在该价位上接受公众投资者的买卖要求,以其自有资金和证券与投资者进行证券交易。其英文释义如下:
A market maker (MM) is a firm or individual who actively quotes two-sided markets in a security, providing bids and offers (known as asks) along with the market size of each. (From Investopedia)
证券做市商市场,包括“复合型”证券交易市场和“单一型”证券做市商市场(OTC市场)两类,其中“复合型”证券交易市场又可分为“混合型”证券交易市场(如纽约证券交易所)和“平行型”证券交易市场(如伦敦证券交易所)。
不过近年由于监管规则改变、以及在线电子交易系统大行其道,造市商的地位已经不若以往,但是绝大多数证券交易所都选择混合交易制度——即竞价交易与造市商做市相结合的交易机制,以期兼顾效率与大规模交易。
以下为相关示例:
In the 1990s, the world mocked Microsoft when this mass market maker of relatively cheap software announced it was getting into the more sophisticated world of business applications.
20世纪90年代,当微软身为面向大众市场的廉价软件厂商,宣布它开始进军先进的商业应用领域时,全世界都对之嗤之以鼻。
Finally on the basis of the transaction systems preponderance and obstruction for adopting market maker system, we provide some proposals for the establishment market maker in GEM.
最后根据我国创业板市场引入做市商制度的优势与障碍,笔者就我国创业板市场引入作市商制度提出了几点建议。