Exchange of shares in the Internet

The first stock exchange

The origins of the emergence of the stock market should look at when first joint-stock companies. These were Levanskaya, Baltic, East India Company, which appeared in the XVI-XVII centuries. With the creation of these societies began an active process of buying - selling shares in such countries as England and Holland. The oldest to date stock exchange is located in Amsterdam, she was nearly 400 years. By the beginning of the XIX century the leader of the stock market has become the London Stock Exchange.



The heyday of the stock market in the capitalist countries began in the early XX century. And with the advent of electronic communication technologies, at the moment the stock markets are booming. Today, trading on the exchange of shares available to any interested person via the Internet. The amounts that you can start investing or trading activities are very small. Currently, there are a sufficient number of brokers who can buy and sell shares via the Internet. Naturally. May be possible to carry out transactions over the phone. And it is not necessarily the same as before, each trader is in the hall of the Exchange.

Income from shares: dividends and quotes.

What are the advantages of investing in stocks gives? Stocks are shares of companies engaged in one or another economic activity. The shares is charged income - so-called dividend. East India Company paid 18% of steady profits from the nominal shares.

In modern conditions the dividend yield of different stocks is different. The best are those shares, the payback period which is less than 25 years. Share prices on the stock exchange are dependent on many factors, in the end there are two approaches to profit by investing in the stock market. The first approach is speculative and is the change in share price itself over time. The second approach is to provide dividend income. If you trade stocks over the Internet it is possible to make a profit both ways.

Shares are usually traded is the stock markets. Depending on the country where the company is registered, its shares are traded on the stock market. At present, globalization and information society, some brokers often provide access to various exchanges.

Investing in the stock market generate revenues not only because of the changes of stock price on the stock exchanges, but also due to the payment of earnings per share. Though expect only to receive dividend income that is the lot of conservative investors, so as to gain the best companies in the world, rarely exceeding 3% per share, so most traders prefer to earn an income due to changes in stock price on the exchange.