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Having access to the accurate current price of a security is central to day trading. A day trader needs to know the prices of the stocks, futures , or currencies that they want to trade. In the case of stocks and futures, those prices come from the exchange where they are traded.
Chart of the NASDAQ-100 between 1994 and 2004, including the dot-com bubble. Day trading is a form of speculation in securities in which a trader buys and sells a financial instrument within the same trading day, so that all positions are closed before the market closes for the trading day to avoid unmanageable risks and negative price gaps between one day's close and the next day's price at ...
An exchange, bourse (/ b ʊər s /), trading exchange or trading venue is an organized market where (especially) tradable securities, commodities, foreign exchange, ...