**What is the Stock Exchange?**
**What is the Stock Exchange?**
**What is the Stock Exchange?**
This week’s interview with Young Businessman Metin Liçis was about the Stock Exchange. Successful businessman MEtin Liçis shared valuable information about the Stock Exchange.
He started by saying that the Stock Exchange is a place where trading of investment instruments such as stocks and exchange-traded funds takes place under government supervision.
Liçis mentioned that it is not necessary to be wealthy or an expert to invest, and anyone who wants can invest in American stock exchanges and the Istanbul Stock Exchange with any amount through intermediaries.
**What is the Stock Exchange?**
**How to Trade on the Stock Exchange?**
Liçis explained, “If buyers and sellers want to buy or sell a product at a certain price in the market, stocks of publicly traded companies can be bought and sold by individual or institutional investors on the stock exchange with the same logic.”
However, he noted that each exchange has different operating procedures and rules.
**Stock Trading:**
He mentioned that if you want to buy stocks, you need to connect with investors who own the stocks of the company you are interested in.
The Stock Exchange provides this strong organization to individuals.
- Companies use the stock exchange to reach potential investors.
- When they want to go public, they are listed on the stock exchange
- and raise money from investors, he continued.
He noted that in the US, the stock exchanges NYSE and Nasdaq are both over $1 trillion in size, while in Turkey, the Istanbul Stock Exchange (BIST) operates.
He mentioned that the total market capitalization of BIST is 8.2 trillion Turkish Lira and also highlighted the presence of over-the-counter (OTC) and cryptocurrency exchanges.
Understanding the operations of different exchanges can help make more informed investments, he concluded.
We concluded our interview with him, taking the promise to discuss the types of exchanges and how they operate next week.