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trading venue

vr.tr.trading-venue · SOC.ORG

Let an agent explain kinds of trading venues and how they work, describe rules and regulation, identify specific venues with sources, and support participation questions in general terms.

Thing Registry Society, people and institutions

Research draft, second pass

A second pass drafted this model: the structure a model of this thing needs, and what is known about it in the world. The line under this one says how the second half was obtained - researched against sources, or recalled without web access, in which case nothing here was read anywhere and every claim is a lead to verify. Unreviewed either way.

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Researched by: Claude

Purpose and description

Let an agent explain kinds of trading venues and how they work, describe rules and regulation, identify specific venues with sources, and support participation questions in general terms.

A place or organisation where buyers and sellers meet to trade goods, securities, commodities or collectables under agreed rules, from historical merchant halls and guild exchanges to stock, futures and commodity exchanges, and specialised markets such as seed exchanges and stamp fairs; trading venues set rules for admission, pricing and settlement and are often regulated.

What it is for: Organised places for trading.

It can be explain kinds of trading venues; describe rules and regulation; identify specific venues; support participation in general terms.

Distinguishing features

Multi-party trading

Rules and membership

Price formation

Often regulated

What it looks like

Halls, floors, fairs or electronic platforms where trading occurs.

How it is recognised

Organised trading under rules

Physical or electronic

A single shop is not a trading venue

Related models

is a kind of - category

market

is a kind of - category

organization

is related to - traded securities

liquid assets

is related to - traded instruments

nondiscretionary trust

In practice

Families and kinds

stock and securities exchanges

futures and commodity exchanges

historical exchanges and merchant halls

fairs and collectables markets such as stamp fairs

community exchanges such as seed exchanges

Standards and regulation

Securities and markets regulation

Exchange rulebooks

Consumer and fair trading rules for markets

Failure modes and hazards

Market manipulation and fraud

Settlement failures

Agents giving investment advice

Also called

kaishodōzaBiržas namsseed exchangestamp fairfutures exchangecryptocurrency exchangegreen energy exchangeIeantiques showstock market historycommodities exchangeUnequal exchangeSOFFEXPolicy Analysis Marketdecentralized cryptocurrency exchangebitcoin exchangeUzbek Commodity ExchangeEcologically unequal exchange

Where this came from

wikidata · CC0 1.0

Source repository Registry entry point

Drafted structure

Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.

Understand Kinds of venue.

Definitions.

Kinds

Types of trading venue.

Kinds

Kinds.

  1. What kind of trading venue is this, and how does it organise trading, pricing and settlement? definition
  2. How do exchanges differ from over-the-counter markets? definition

Specific

A specific venue.

Specific

Specific venue.

  1. What is this exchange or market, who operates it, and what is traded, according to official sources? provenance
  2. Which entry fits it? action
Participate Taking part.

General information.

Access

Access and membership.

Access

Access.

  1. How do participants gain access to this venue, directly or through intermediaries? provenance
  2. Is the user seeking investment advice, which needs a licensed adviser? boundary

Community

Community exchanges.

Community

Community exchanges.

  1. How do seed exchanges, stamp fairs and similar community venues operate? provenance
  2. Which rules apply to them? provenance
Regulate Rules and oversight.

Governance.

Rules

Exchange rules.

Rules

Rules.

  1. Which rules govern listing, trading, transparency and settlement at this venue, and who supervises it? provenance
  2. How is manipulation detected? provenance

Failures

Failures and crises.

Failures

Failures.

  1. What are documented failures and crises at trading venues, and what reforms followed? provenance
  2. How are investors protected? provenance
History History of exchanges.

Context.

Origins

Origins.

Origins

Origins.

  1. How did trading venues develop, from medieval fairs and Japanese kaisho to modern electronic exchanges? provenance
  2. Which historical venues are notable? provenance

Technology

Electronic trading.

Technology

Technology.

  1. How has electronic trading changed venues, and what are documented concerns? provenance
  2. Which entry fits a specific technology? action

What the second pass must settle

  • Should each exchange be a separate entry?
  • How should regulator registers be linked?
  • How should historical venues be linked?
Draft as JSON