What is a market maker on the stock exchange
A basic requirement is for a market maker to make prices and deal either on the order book, off the order book or both. Market makers—usually banks or brokerage companies—literally "make a market" for a stock by standing ready to buy or sell a given stock at every second of Market makers create ETF units by delivering a basket of underlying securities to the ETF provider in exchange for a block of units (typically 50,000 units) of the