Market Depth available to investors on webpage of NEPSE from today

Nepal Stock Exchange Limited (NEPSE) is introducing market depth for the first time to the general investors from today through it's webpage, http://www.nepalstock.com.np/. NEPSE has already added a window, "MARKETDEPTH", on its webpage in order to facilitate the process smoothly. 

As of now the market depth has been available to the brokers only. Now, the investors will have access to Market Depth from today if everything goes as planned.

Market depths is an electronic list of buy and sell orders, organized by price level and updated to reflect real-time market activity.

It provides information such as number of units of shares available to purchase at a certain price. It also shows price, the buyer is willing to pay for certain units of shares.

All of this information can be useful to traders because it shows not only where price is now, but where it is likely to be in the near future. As market depth is in real time, it changes constantly throughout the trading session.

Market depth also shows the size of an order needed to move the market price by a given amount. If the market is deep, a large order is needed to change the price.