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The previous article was devoted to the topic of volatility from the perspective of bonus certificates. It was mentioned that market volatility almost critically influences their valuations and lives. After series of articles on the topic of bonus certificates let us have a closer look on the market volatility of the year 2015, which is slowly reaching to its end. The first quarter of 2015 was for the equities markets rather positive. Though stock prices were falling in the very beginning of the year, they, however, recovered fast and returned on the growth path afterwards. The growth of stock prices was visible especially in Europe, which largely benefited from the March launched quantitative easing by the European Central Bank. This effect helped the European markets until mid of the second quarter. At that time markets went through “positive” volatility that was caused by the investors’ buying euphoria. Grexit? In May 2015 the situation in markets started to turn around. It is...

It was already mentioned in one of the previous articles that the Europe’s and the World’s biggest market for investment certificates is in Germany. Majority of issuers of certificates are based in Germany, and there are as well specialized platforms and exchanges for certificates trading. Thanks to those exchanges certificates are well accessible to a wide investment audience and public, and trading with these instruments is technically non-complicated, cheap, and fast. Among the main certificate markets in Germany belong the exchanges in Stuttgart and in Frankfurt. Let’s have a more detailed look at the Stuttgart Stock Exchange , which belongs in the field of certificates trading to the absolute top. Traders highly value the exchange’s level of liquidity, high quality of instruments’ price setting procedures, a range of intelligent order types, wide range of provided market information, and many more interesting features. Shortly about the history The hearquarter of the B...