Whois & Analysis for citadelsecurities.com

A market maker or liquidity provider is a company or an individual that quotes both a buy and a sell price in a financial instrument or commodity held in inventory, hoping to make a profit on the bid-offer spread, or turn.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission defines a "market maker" as a firm that stands ready to buy and sell stock on a regular and continuous basis at a publicly quoted price.

Citadel (formerly known as Citadel Investment Group, LLC) is an American global financial institution.

Founded in 1990 by Kenneth C.

Griffin, the company operates two primary businesses: Citadel, one of the world's largest alternative asset managers with more than $25 billion in assets under management; and Citadel Securities, one of the leading market makers in the world, trading products including equities, equity options, and interest rate swaps for retail and institutional clients.

In business, economics or investment, market liquidity is a market's ability to purchase or sell an asset without causing drastic change in the asset's price.

Equivalently, an asset's market liquidity (or simply "an asset's liquidity") describes the asset's ability to sell quickly without having to reduce its price to a significant degree.

Liquidity is about how big the trade-off is between the speed of the sale and the price it can be sold for.

In a liquid market, the trade-off is mild: selling quickly will not reduce the price much.

In a relatively illiquid market, selling it quickly will require cutting its price by some amount.

A hedge fund is an investment fund that pools capital from accredited individuals or institutional investors and invests in a variety of assets, often with complex portfolio-construction and risk-management techniques.

It is administered by a professional investment management firm, and often structured as a limited partnership, limited liability company, or similar vehicle.

Hedge funds are generally distinct from mutual funds as their use of leverage is not capped by regulators and distinct from private equity funds as the majority of hedge funds invest in relatively liquid assets.

In financial services, a broker-dealer is a natural person, company or other organization that engages in the business of trading securities for its own account or on behalf of its customers.

Broker-dealers are at the heart of the securities and derivatives trading process.