What is proprietary trading?
What is proprietary trading? Proprietary, private, prop trading (proprietary or prop trading) is precisely the case where a financial company prefers to generate profits directly from market activity rather than from commissions with minimal margin derived from client trading. Such a company is focused on proprietary trading, where it takes all profits from trades, not just commissions. A proprietary trading company , unlike a fund (a hedge fund or an investment company) operates with its own capital or the capital of a relatively small number of participants and not to invest in a limited number of securities or other financial instruments with subsequent payment of interests/dividends to its investors but uses its own (or attracted) capital to give it to the most successful traders of the company for management, serving for them on the one hand as an investor and increasing their profit. At the same time the degree of freedom of the trader who receives the company's money for
