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Extremely-Bad-Idea t1_iu9t5z9 wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Is it just me, or is a a Market Makers' role in Order/Execution/Settlement confusing? Question: The CEO of Webull talked about their Market Maker, saying: "We're able to buy a share without driving up the stock 10% every time?" What does this work with Price Discovery & Supply & Demand? by ringingbells

I am unaware of any volume requirements that the NYSE or NASDAQ are required to maintain as part of their SEC licensing. Obviously they are huge and process billions of shares in trade every business day.

Regarding individual market makers, I believe that any SEC licensed brokerage can be a market maker for one or more stocks. Big brokerages, such as Fidelity and Schwab, can easily make internal matches between buyers and sellers for heavily traded stocks like Microsoft, Exxon, and Macy's. However, they may need to still need to divert some orders to exchanges when they can't match them immediately.

For thinly traded stocks, such a small caps, the exchanges are very important. Even big brokerages typically cannot be market makers for those.

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