Equity markets are the meeting point for buyers and sellers of stocks. The securities traded in the equity market can either be public stocks, which are those open for trade by the public, or privately traded stocks. Today public stock exchanges are manipulated playgrounds for the elite of the public exchanges the brokers, which mediate all public stock trades, in the same manner as the elite banksters mediate all payments in the money market.
An equity market is a form of equity financing, in which a company gives up a certain percentage of ownership in exchange for capital. That capital is then used for a variety of business needs. Equity financing is the opposite of debt financing, which utilizes loans and other forms of borrowing to obtain capital.
In the equity market, investors bid for stocks by offering a certain price, and sellers ask for a specific price. When these two prices match, a sale occurs. Often, there are many investors bidding on the same stock. When this occurs, the first investor to place the bid is the first to get the stock. When a buyer will pay any price for the stock, they are buying at market value; similarly, when a seller will take any price for the stock, they are selling at market value. Today, most securities are book entries, with the details of who owns them typically maintained, at least in part, at a CSD and hence operate as chose in action, of the contained sovereign legal jurisdiction, there is no concept of a cross jurisdiction equity market due to the limitation.
The decentralized asset exchange is a regression back in time when physical bearer securities existed, and were cleared and settled via decentralized processes and procedures; long before the correct Centralised Counter Party (CCP) and Centralised Securities Depository (CSD) dominated and rigged all public exchanges.
The future of Equity Markets is a fully decentralized allocation of capital to maximise return on capital via a equity based investment in a corporation without any external manipulation of rent extraction by any intermediary, operating within the rule of law. This is essentially a Free Equity Market. The DAX self clears without the need for any clearing or settlement function, via chose in possession common law.
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