Stock Market Timeline

One thing that is certain in the stock market is ups and downs; there will be days when market would be up and days when it will down. There is just no guarantee that the performance of the market will be as you expect it to be, incase you compare the long term traditional stock and mutual fund method, there are always some surprises for you. The stock market history is extremely rich and the system, which is now so efficient, that, is being used for trading and investments have evolved over years. The policy makers as and when needed have used all the regulations and policies that have been produced over the years. Stock Market Timeline is for people who are interested to know when the stock market made its existence in United States of America. In the year 1685, Wall Street was founded, after that in 1792; the investment market came into existence, trading five securities. Investment market included two-bank stock and three governments

The New York Stock Exchange started as a result of the Buttonwood Agreement. Soon after that the stock market begun gaining securities and prominence such as insurance stocks, bank stocks, government bonds and started trading. When the market got prominence, rules and regulation requirement for right conduct of investing and trading was felt. The New York Stock Exchange and Board was established at Wall Street. The board asked the listed companies to present complete statements of outstanding shares and capital resources. In 1853 stock market crashed for the first time, the loss was 45% of the value; reason they found was collapse of some insurance company. The first cable of transatlantic was founded in the year 1866 which allowed communication between London and New York instantly. The stock ticker was first made in the year 1867 which brought the companies with current prices to all investors. Specialists were made in the year 1872.A trader who is trading only in one stock which makes him sit at one location on the floor where trading happens is a specialist. A suggestion was made in 1895 that the companies should annually produce performance reports to their shareholders. In 1896 another development happened in Wall Street publishing journal form for the first time.

‘Roaring Twenties’ bull market began in October 1923 and continued for almost six years. First symptoms of bull market ending appeared March 1925 as a small crash that lead to ‘Selling Avalanche’ the New York daily news. Black Thursday is usually when the bubble of economic bursts resulting in fall of stock prices greatly on a heavy selling day, it happened in October 1929 for the first time. In 1987, October the market crashed and the average of Dow Jones Industrial came down by 508 points resulting in the largest fall in one day. The first online stock trading which happened by use of Internet appeared in August 1994 by a company called K.Aufhauser.

As mentioned the history of the stock market is incomparable and rich. NYSE is the largest exchange in the entire globe and in future will remain to be one.