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I am always forgetting to understand price driven vs order driven market. Could you please explain how to remember by names of these (order drien/price driven)
I am not very clear on concepts on these key words.
 
I always think of order driven as having the central order limit book, where highest bid and lowest ask from brokers are first in line and the order system will match those for execution. Then price driven is like NASDAQ where there is no auction, instead the dealer puts out a firm bid and ask and trading moves from that.
 
I find myself forgetting to understand alot of things in CFA readings lately…
 
On a more helpful note, just as the names imply, in a price driven market, the price (set by the market makers) determine the trade volume that will result. Individuals holding positions or looking to purchase watch the price offers by market makers then base their actions upon that. Hence the quantity and transactions are Price Driven.
In an order driven market, the orders are placed in the book, many of them with price restrictions. The volume and the price of the transactions depends directly upon the orders held in the central order limit book. Hence the prices and transactions are Order Driven.
 
rekooh,
Thanks for reply. Now I remember order driven is using order book. No dealer involved just pries are matched between buyer/seller. I think NYSE follows this. Prive driven is dealer market and nasdaq follows it.
Thanks,
Chinni
 
No sweat, any other questions, I will help out as best as I can.
 
i don’t have my schweser notes with me, but i remember it mentioning the definitions of these have been switched from what they were in last year. i know, sounds ridiculous, but i know i read it. can someone confirm? or i can do it when i get home..
 
To my knowledge, NYSE switched from price driven to order driven
 
Could be right, I did a quick search online and came up with results saying that NYSE was price driven and others saying order driven. But based on the quick glance I gave it, it appears NYSE may be order driven after all. Any confirmation from anyone would be helpful.
 
the CFA level 1 materials (CFAI volume V p.14) say that that order driven markets are the same as price driven - this is what we would otherwise call an auction market (with a centralised order book with full transparancy). The other major system is the quote driven market (the dealer market).
Nyse is actually a hybrid system but they seem to be drifting towards a fully order driven system (especially since they took over Euronext and their state-of-the-art trading engine, NSC)
 
here is what google says:
The NYSE is a combination of both an order-driven and price-driven system. Therefore, the NYSE. more closely resembles the Paris Bourse and Frankfurt DAX …
 
Redrum Wrote:
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> the CFA level 1 materials (CFAI volume V p.14) say
> that that order driven markets are the same as
> price driven - this is what we would otherwise
> call an auction market (with a centralised order
> book with full transparancy). The other major
> system is the quote driven market (the dealer
> market).
quote driven = price driven
order driven is different
 
Google… , last year’s level I materials… these are all great resources for anyone other than LEVEL II CFA CANDIDATES!!!
The LOS requires us to distinguish between an order driven market and a price driven market (and explain the risks and benefits of each). I’ll focus on making the distinction and how I’m going to remember it.
Page 48 of Volume 4 addresses all of this, but allow me to summarize:
Nasdaq = Dealer Market (“It is also known as a price-driven market (or quote driven market)” ).
“Paris, Frankfurt or Tokyo (and most other markets) have put into place electronic order-driven systems… An auction market is also known as an order-driven market.”
There is a footnote about NYSE ( “a unique system where each stock is allocated to one specialist…”), then later (on page 50) it says that “The NYSE combines price-driven and order-driven systems”
Also, “Only American stock markets have retained a price - driven model”.
Soooo… Here’s the scoop and here’s how you remember:
Only US stock markets can be Price driven (NASDAQ and maybe NYSE) — that’s because American’s don’t take orders from anyone.
The rest of the world is order-driven.
And when I think of auctions, I think of snooty French art auctions. So that’s how I’ll remember that.
 
For the record Google is not a bad resource although I typically use investopedia which is actually extremely helpful for on call items such as this.
 
For the test, I would not rely on either google or investopedia…….only the CFAI stuff.
Hell, if the CFAI books said that the NYSE only traded stocks priced above $100, then that is what I would remember for the test. No matter how ridiculous it sounds.
Although after the test I would quickly convince my memory what reality is.
 
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