Definitions for "Marketmaker"
Keywords:  dealer, investors, dispersed, buy, sell
The marketmaker is a dealer who stands ready to buy and sell, posting prices and effectively creating the continuous secondary market with the help of brokers who link the dispersed market investors. So a secondary market creates liquidity as marketmakers allow investors to on-sell financial assets for cash with speed and at the going market price. Marketmakers trade on behalf of clients and on their own accounts.
A dealer in shares who buys and sells them to investors.