Markets enable trades by bringing buyers and sellers together.

Centralization makes it easier for buyers and sellers to find each other and negotiate prices, improving market efficiency and liquidity.
Markets also promote fair and orderly trading through standardization and transparency.
Stock and commodity markets allow efficient buyer-seller matching.
On the stock market, buyers and sellers can see stock prices and quickly buy or sell.
Centralized trading increases market liquidity, making it easy to buy or sell assets without affecting the price.
Since there are many buyers and sellers in the market, a single buyer or seller is unlikely to affect the price.
Markets offer standardization and transparency.
Stock markets require all listed companies to disclose financial information to the public.
Since all investors have the same information, fair and orderly trading is promoted.
Markets also help buyers and sellers find a fair price for an asset by matching supply and demand.
Existing markets facilitate trade by centralizing buyers and sellers, increasing efficiency and liquidity, and promoting fair and orderly trading through standardization and transparency.
