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Fourth Market
The trading of securities between institutions on an over-the-counter computer network. Trades between institutions will often be traded in large blocks and without brokers, allowing the institutions to avoid brokerage fees.

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When a mutual fund and a pension fund enter into a large block trade between themselves they would be doing it in the fourth market, usually over an electronic communication network.

Fourth market
Refers to the practice of institutional investors trading large blocks of securities directly to avoid brokerage commissions. See: Instinet.
fourth market
The market for securities in which large investors bypass exchanges and dealers in order to trade directly among themselves. Compare secondary market, third market. See also Autex, Instinetr.


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