I want to learn more about the stock market.  I know what NYSE is.
I want to learn more about the stock market.  I know what NYSE is.
user
Sure!  NYSE is the New York Stock Exchange, a public company stock market. It is the world's largest stock exchange, and in 2017 it was worth $34 billion.  If you’re looking to trade the stock market, you should really be doing it through a brokerage account.  If you want to learn more about that process, you can read a beginner’s guide.  In this guide, it says that the best place to start is by looking up your stock’s symbol, and using that as an input to the brokerage website.
assistant
Can you tell me the name of the other markets in the United States?
user
There are a couple!  Some of the main ones are the American Stock Exchange, which was the world’s first stock exchange and is now just an index of companies traded on the NYSE, and the Nasdaq, which is a “screen-based market where securities are bought and sold through a computer network.”  And there’s also the Chicago Board Options Exchange, which is a more niche market where the contracts are written in English instead of the company symbols that you usually use.
assistant
We can now trade NYSE stocks online.  Do traders still work on the floor of the NYSE building just like in the old days?
user