Generally speaking, brokers refer to legally established brokerage organizations and individuals who act as contract intermediaries in order to facilitate other people's commodity transactions, provide information, opportunities and conditions for clients to conclude contracts, or sign contracts with contract parties on behalf of clients in anonymous transactions. Brokers can be divided into dealer brokers and agent brokers. The former only serves professional market makers, while the latter serves institutional or individual investors.
Industry classification
Brokers can be divided into general brokers and special industry brokers. Special trade brokers refer to professional brokers engaged in finance, insurance, securities, futures, science and technology, real estate and other industries. You must go through professional training, pass the examination and obtain the qualification certificate of professional broker before you can take up your post.
General broker: The so-called general broker refers to the middleman who engages in commodity trading that is allowed to be publicly traded by the state and does not belong to special industries. The main economic activities of general brokers are to find sellers for the buyers of commodities, find buyers for sellers, bridge the gap between buyers and sellers, and promote the transactions between buyers and sellers. In the developed areas of foreign brokerage industry, general brokers are also called commercial brokers, which means to provide intermediary services for users in commodity transactions, including real estate transactions, means of production, means of subsistence and other transactions, transfer, lease or sale of idle equipment, transportation and so on. An excellent commercial broker (general broker) or an excellent commercial brokerage company should not only have very good social relations, but also have a very good reputation and public image. They act in strict accordance with the principles and actively seek buyers for customers (users). At the same time, they are also experts in a certain industry, with rich professional knowledge and understanding of the industry. Therefore, for a user, finding and finding a good brokerage company or broker is undoubtedly finding and finding a "golden mountain".
Futures brokers: Due to the characteristics of futures trading, futures brokers are generally divided into brokerage companies and brokers.
Technical broker: Technical broker refers to citizens, legal persons and other economic organizations engaged in brokerage business such as intermediary, brokerage and agency for the purpose of collecting commissions and promoting others' technical transactions.
Labor brokers: institutions, companies, individuals, etc. Engaged in labor intermediary for the purpose of obtaining commission.
Real estate agent: A real estate agent is an intermediary who makes real estate investments or transactions on behalf of clients to obtain commission income. Real estate agents are generally divided into two categories: enterprise real estate agents and individual real estate agents. Expert real estate agents and general real estate agents.
Stylistic brokerage: Stylistic brokerage refers to cultural and artistic brokerage and sports brokerage. Cultural and artistic brokers are for people in the cultural and artistic circles. Sports agents serve people in the sports world.