How to Use market maker in a Sentence

market maker

noun
  • The more the stock goes up, the more the market maker owes you.
    George Calhoun, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2021
  • If the shares jump in price, the market maker will lose money on the stock’s short sale.
    John Detrixhe, Quartz, 9 Aug. 2021
  • The market maker still makes a small profit from the one-cent spread.
    Lisa Beilfuss, WSJ, 9 Nov. 2018
  • In return, the market maker pays the broker for the right to fill the investors’ orders.
    Alexander Osipovich, WSJ, 1 Feb. 2022
  • That risk leads market makers to be cautious and quote wider spreads.
    Lisa Beilfuss, WSJ, 9 Nov. 2018
  • The Swiss bank produced the notes, which were then sold by third parties to market makers, Thiam said.
    Patrick Winters, Bloomberg.com, 14 Feb. 2018
  • The market maker fills the orders at the best price that would have been available on an exchange and then, if all goes well, pockets the spread.
    John Detrixhe, Quartz, 23 June 2020
  • The brokers were flocking to his firm for good reason––he was the first to pay them big bucks for channeling their trades to a market maker.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 2 Mar. 2021
  • The company does not act as a market maker or trade any of its own assets, Yates says.
    Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2021
  • Without a lead market maker a fund’s bid-ask spread can balloon.
    Rachel Evans, Bloomberg.com, 23 May 2018
  • Traders at the large market maker said the mystery trading pattern came to a halt in mid-October.
    Alexander Osipovich, WSJ, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Robinhood, or your broker of choice, takes your order to a firm known as a wholesaler or market maker.
    Julia Horowitz, CNN, 9 June 2022
  • Instead, the market maker is expected to figure out supply and demand on the day of the listing.
    Lucinda Shen, Fortune, 20 June 2019
  • The future Ponzi schemer was the first market maker to pay brokers for routing their orders to his firm for processing.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 22 Mar. 2021
  • This type of trade, known as delta hedging, neutralizes the risk of price fluctuations for the market maker.
    John Detrixhe, Quartz, 9 Aug. 2021
  • That will be determined Thursday morning by market makers who balance buy and sell orders at the start of the trading day.
    Kevin Kelleher, Fortune, 20 June 2019
  • Ken Griffin is founder, chief executive officer and 85% owner of the hedge fund Citadel—the largest market maker in the United States.
    Sophie Mellor, Fortune, 25 Mar. 2022
  • For instance, if a trader named Bob’s sell order in BTC doesn’t have a matching buying order on an exchange, the market maker will step in and make the purchase.
    Omkar Godbole, Forbes, 6 June 2022
  • There’s so much activity that trades are largely matched via order books, in contrast to some other stocks that might need a market maker to be on the other side of a trade.
    Washington Post, 17 May 2019
  • The three are also so-called designated market makers at NYSE.
    Alexander Osipovich, WSJ, 14 June 2019
  • Cry Tough Even brand name issuers are having trouble lining up lead market makers.
    Rachel Evans, Bloomberg.com, 23 May 2018
  • The currencies slumped to the weakest levels in months as few local market makers were around to offer liquidity at a time when the dollar was surging across the board.
    Adrian Krajewski, Bloomberg.com, 2 May 2018
  • But one telling stat comes from Citadel Securities, the biggest retail market maker.
    Matt Egan, CNN, 4 Sep. 2020
  • Robinhood also makes money on interest held in client cash accounts as well as by selling client trades to market makers.
    Douglas MacMillan, WSJ, 15 Mar. 2018
  • For example, a fund or market maker that pays with its native BNB coin gets 25% off on spot transactions, and a 10% reduction on futures.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Citadel Securities, one of the biggest market makers in the world, has hired the machine-learning expert as a senior fellow and head of principal research.
    John Detrixhe, Quartz, 23 Sep. 2019
  • Some officials worry that paying for orders incentivizes brokers to send stock trades to the market maker that pays them the most, rather than giving users the best trade execution.
    John Detrixhe, Quartz, 19 Sep. 2020
  • The exchange will work with the company’s bankers and the designated market maker, Citadel Securities, to get a sense of supply and demand and then open trading based on what the group believes will be a stable price.
    Sonali Basak and William Hobbs | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 20 June 2019
  • At least five lenders, according to the Wall Street Journal, were processing payments for peer-to-peer transactions, or when an exchange’s customers buy and sell to each other rather than through a market maker.
    Byben Weiss, Fortune Crypto, 27 Sep. 2023
  • While doing so, the market maker also takes a short position in the futures market or buys a put option or bearish bet, keeping his exposure price-neutral.
    Omkar Godbole, Forbes, 6 June 2022

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