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Technology has Changed the Stock Market

Did you know that the best day to invest in the stock market is wednesday The stock market today can be traced back to Amsterdam in 1602 when the Dutch became the world's first publicly traded company Jeff Desjardins Over 4 centuries later the stock market has not changed from the earliest exchange found in Amsterdam Modern computing and the internet have sped up transactions so they can be accomplished in a thousands of a second but the spine of the market has not changed at all While newer stock transfer technology is used today the same model from years ago remain which can create multiple industry problems Technology improves the stock market by online trading and the buy and sell cycle for investors Technology speeds up the process of trading world wide in the stock market Investors in the stock market wether through individual shares or funds face the threat of major losses and disruption from hackers according to a number of Wall Street investors says the Wall Street Journal reports There has only been one attempt but they never seceded the SEC Securities and Exchange Commision stopped them before they could do anything Sixteen microseconds That is how long it takes for a share trade to be completed using a system built by Algo Technologies a US based trading technology company says Jeremy Grant Sixteen microseconds is equal to 1 6 seconds that is crazy fast to have traded your shares across the world 



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