Term
Market maker
A participant that quotes a buy price and a sell price at the same time, so there is always someone on the other side. It earns the gap between the two.
In pesos: Thanks to market makers, your $2,000 MXN order finds a counterparty in a second instead of waiting for a matching human.
Where to go deeper
3/4 6 min Read How a stock exchange actually works What happens between pressing buy and owning a share: the order book, the BMV, its hours, who regulates it, what an index is and what you would see if you walked in.More terms on the same topic
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