Screen-based trading helps in fixing prices efficiently. This is beca…

NCERT (Pre-rationalised Edition): “TRADING AND SETTLEMENT PROCEDURE … Electronic trading systems or screen-based trading has certain advantages:
1. It ensures transparency as it allows participants to see the prices of all securities in the market while business is being transacted. They are able to see the full market during real time.
2. It increases efficiency of information being passed on, thus helping in fixing prices efficiently. The computer screens display information on prices and also capital market developments that influence share prices.
3. It increases the efficiency of operations, since there is reduction in time, cost and risk of error.
4. People from all over the country and even abroad who wish to participate in the stock market can buy or sell securities through brokers or members without knowing each other. That is, they can sit in the broker’s office, log on to the computer at the same time and buy or sell securities. This system has enabled a large number of participants to trade with each other, thereby improving the liquidity of the market.
5. A single trading platform has been provided as business is transacted at the same time in all the trading centres. Thus, all the trading centres spread all over the country have been brought onto one trading platform, i.e., the stock exchange, on the computer. …”