Commercial forms [Edit]

Categorized according to commercial forms of the types of exchanges can be distinguished:

the Stock Exchange market maker,
the auction market,
and hybrid forms, such as, for example, combined with continuous trading auctions.

Earlier forms were:

a outcry: The buying and selling orders are made by mutual shouts.

By type of settlement of trades:

Futures and
Spot transactions.

Another distinction is the type of trading: