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ONLINE TRADING
Trading is the interconnection with the markets
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Financial information has a fundamental role to play in ensuring growth and development of equity and capital markets trading over the Internet.
Mobile dealing involves a combination of factors that makes the design of these systems and the optimisation of hardware resources a complex matter.
Let us examine a number of characteristics connected with the issue of performance
:: Quantitative issues
- One individual share, amongst the most traded on the American market, may have as many as 30 "prices" per second during the market trading hours.
- Every day, several tens of thousands of shares are traded at the same time on the better-known trading floors of the world alone.
- The average user of financial information repeatedly accesses the same share quotation pages to track the movements of the share.
- Thousands of Internet users access the system simultaneously.
:: Qualitative issues
Online trading is the only real-time banking operation where the result is not deterministic, but depends on the situation at a particular moment: in fact, the conditions change so rapidly that any incorrect functioning of the system has a direct impact on the customer’s operations, sometimes resulting in outcomes that differ from what was expected.
The inability to pick up a change in trend, either topping or bottoming out, can translate into a loss for the trader, both in terms of absolute value and loss of profit. The shrewdest user is, on average, far more demanding than the average web surfer and is far less prepared to tolerate limitations when making use of user functions.
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