diff --git a/report.md b/report.md index 6fa3e74..d3adf87 100644 --- a/report.md +++ b/report.md @@ -457,6 +457,25 @@ expect few places to be as well-rounded as IMC. # Appendix +## Vocabulary + +Market-making + +: A market-maker provides liquidity to the market by continuously quoting both +sell and trade prices on the market, hoping to make a profit on the *bid-ask +spread*. + +Bid and ask + +: Respectively the price for buying and selling a stock or other financial +instrument. The closer the spread of the two prices is, the more liquidity there +is in the market for that product. + +Continuous Integration + +: The practice of automating the integration of code from multiple contributors +into a single software project. + ## About IMC International Marketmakers Combinations (IMC) was founded in 1989 in Amsterdam,