New York Stock Exchange

Investing on the Stock Exchange requires that you contact one of their member firms or a correspondent broker of a member firm. Moreover, always make sure that the people you are dealing with are licensed and regulated by the New York Stock Exchange.

The Stock Exchange carefully regulates the activities of its member-brokers to guard the investing public. Membership on the NY Stock Exchange is not cheap with a seat costing sometimes millions of dollars.
Here are some interesting facts about the NY Stock Exchange. The first listed company was the Bank of New York, traded under the Buttonwood Tree in 1792. The longest listed company is Con Edison, listed in 1824 as the New York Gas Light Company. The Exchange had its first telephone in 1878 but only got electric lights in 1883.

The NY Stock Exchange is the largest stock exchange in the world in terms of the quantity of money, the amount of company value on the exchange. Originating in 1792, the Stock Exchange was formed when stockbrokers and merchants signed the Buttonwood Agreement.
As the world's leading and most technologically advanced equities market, the NY Stock Exchange attracts investors and investments from every corner of the globe. Through the Stock Exchange, investors buy and sell shares in the larger and best companies in the world. Each day billions of dollars of shares are traded on the Exchange.

The stock exchange is made of members, who actually do the buying and selling for their clients. These companies, located around the globe, are financially great. The value of the all the companies that own a seat on the Exchange is almost four trillion dollars. They fulfil stock market orders for millions of clients. Billions of shares are traded on the NY Stock Exchange every single day.

The purpose of the NY Stock Exchange is to provide a marketplace for companies to raise money for their business operations by selling a part of the ownership of their company to the public. Through the NY Stock Exchange you can be an owner of corporations that are household names like Coca-Cola or Sony. As you can see, not just domestic companies list their shares on the New York Stock Exchange. Almost 2,800 world-class companies with a total global market value of $21 trillion are listed on the Exchange...

As a small owner of a large company, you may think that you do not count. Not true at all. The rules that allow a corporation to list its shares on the Exchange also require that the company treat you as if you were their largest shareholder. All companies listed on the Stock Exchange must provide shareholders with the same complete financial information as their Chairman of the Board.

Additional Information
Stock Exchange A member is an individual approved by the Exchange and designated by a member organization to effect transactions on the floor of the Exchange, or any facility thereof, on its behalf.
Trading Stocks  To “trade” means to buy and sell in the language of the financial markets. How a system that can accommodate one billion shares trading in a single day works is the job of the NY stock exchange.
Stock Shares  A shareholder is any person or organization which owns one or more shares of a corporation's stock.