Investors make millions of online stock trades each day. But have you ever thought about how online stock trading works? Once you hit enter on an order to buy or sell a stock, what happens next? There ...
Andrew Kessel was a breaking news writer for Investopedia until October 2025. He previously covered markets for Proactive Investors, with a focus on small-cap stocks in fintech, healthcare, mining, ...
The Chinese-owned rival to Robinhood Markets, which saw its popularity soar in the U.S. during the meme-stock mania, had previously mulled an IPO. A Nasdaq-listed blank-check company formed by Korean ...
Several online trading sites went down after the U.S. stock market took a nosedive on Monday morning. After the Nasdaq, Dow Jones, and S&P 500 indexes all sharply dropped, Downdetector (which shares ...