What is continuous trading?

Continuous trading forms the basis for all types of trades across secondary exchanges in the United States. It can be compared to batch trading, which is the opposite of continuous trading and occurs only at the market open. Continuous trading occurs continuously throughout the trading day with immediate execution by market makers.

What is a continuous market?

A continuous market allows flexible trading with characteristics like flexible timings of trades and liquidity, whereas the frequency of a trade in a market is primarily once or twice. In a market, there is more underlying asset or security price uncertainty.

What are call markets & continuous markets?

In this respect, markets are classified as call markets and continuous markets. A call market is a marketplace in which trading takes place at certain points in time (discrete time intervals), i.e., when the market is called. For example, call markets are usually called once or twice during the trading day.