The NASD member firms that buy and sell NASDAQ securities at prices and sizes they advertise in NASDAQ. There are more than 800 member firms that act as NASDAQ Market Makers.
Various commercial and investment banks that make a market in swaps and hold significant portfolios of swap contracts. A market participant who provides liquidity to the markets by continuously quoting prices at which he/she will buy or sell a particular instrument.
These are the people who ensure that there is a market in a particular share. They are the people who set the bid and offer prices. See Market Makers -- Saints or Sinners
The NASD member firms that buy and sell NASDAQ securities, at prices they display in NASDAQ, for their own account. There are currently over 500 firms that act as NASDAQ Market Makers. One of the major differences between the NASDAQ Stock Market and other major markets in the U.S. is NASDAQ's structure of competing Market Makers. Each Market Maker competes for customer order flow by displaying buy and sell quotations for a guaranteed number of shares. Once an order is received, the Market Maker will immediately purchase for or sell from its own inventory, or seek the other side of the trade until it is executed, often in a matter of seconds.
Those who trade in the market as principals, and create a market in a specific stock by quoting prices at which they will buy or sell on demand.
Stock Exchange member firms which are obliged to make a continuous two-way price, that is to offer to buy and sell securities during market hours.
The traders in a firm who are responsible for setting the quotes and trading games in running. The market makers are specialists in different sports
Like a middleman between the buyers and the sellers of options and stock.
Firms that publish bid and/or ask price(s) for a given security by using their own capital, research, retail and/or systems resources . Market Makers compete with each other for orders to buy or sell at publicly quoted prices (called making a market).
The NASD member firms that use their own capital, research, retail and/or systems resources to represent a stock and compete with each other to buy and sell the stocks they represent. There are over 500 member firms that act as Nasdaq Market Makers. One of the major differences between The Nasdaq Stock Market and other major markets in the U.S. is Nasdaq's structure of competing Market Makers. Each Market Maker competes for customer order flow by displaying buy and sell quotations for a guaranteed number of shares. Once an order is received, the Market Maker will immediately purchase for or sell from its own inventory, or seek the other side of the trade until it is executed, often in a matter of seconds.
A brokerage or bank that maintains a bid and ask price in a given common stock by always being available to buy or sell at publicly quoted prices.