Constant Contracting

The constant contracting is structured in three modalities or submarkets:

Lot market: the negotiations are done by lots or multiple of lots (100 shares, 50 shares, 25 shares, depending on the price of the share in question). The determination of prices is done by the confrontation of proposals of different signs (buy/sell), in a way that the counterparts that permit to close operations are distributed, in whole lots, depending on their rate of price. In case of equal prices the temporary priority will be taken in account.

Peak market: the amounts negotiated are inferior to that of a lot. Its proposals must be limited and must be executed totally or partially before the appearance of proposals of contrary signs. You must notice that at the peak and lot markets there are possibilities for arbitrage between them.

Special terms market: orders are traded “all or nothing” or with specialties: instructions with a differential against the investor, proposals that must be executed by a minimum volume of lots ad at prices that won’t need negotiations at the lot market, etc.

We must emphasize that the peak and special terms markets are marginal in comparison with that of the lot market.