What is Buy Side Trading? 

Buy-side is the face of the Wall Street constructed by institutional investors like mutual funds, pension funds in addition to insurance firms that tenders in purchasing a high volume of securities for purposes of financial management. Sell-side being the antonym of Purchase side, deals with the provision of endorsements of public markets upgrade, reduction, price objective, and additional issues. Buy-side complements sell-side making up Wall Street

How Does Buy Side Trading Work?

Buy-side firms deal with the acquiring of securities and other assets for their benefits or that of their customer's. Besides mutual funds, pension funds and insurance companies, private equity funds, hedge funds, and individual traders are also members of buy-side. Although the sell-side recommendations are provided to the public, buy-side recommendation isis private to the institution, and any applicable method, vision, formula developed by the buy side analysts are confidentially maintained. Ideally, buy-side investments are valued for firm's or its customer value creation by establishing and purchasing assets whose market values are lower than book value. Given that the security prices are affected greatly by the market economic responses, the buy side is appropriate when the method is confidentially kept from the public. For instance when a buy-side analyst becomes aware of the technology stock price to be lower than its fellow group although it performs highly based on the propriety financial model that the analyst uses, then the analyst can conclude of the company stocks to be undervalued and advice his clients for the purchase of the said stocks. On the other hand, if the analyst decides to make the findings to the public, then the low priced stock will be lost as many will demand the said stock and with the economic market forces of demand and supply, the equilibrium price will rise hence making the stock price to increase. Because of confidentiality needed for buy-side, companies that employ both buy-side and sell-side analysts a boundary is created separating the two sides. Although there are cases where investment banks with both buy-side and sell-side may decide to minimize the boundary created. There is a possibility of a buy-side exiting analyst endorsing a selling side analyst to make a recommendation, and this conveniently results from sharing price increase before sales. A buy-side analyst undertakes financial research and strategy development of a company. In the development of a company's strategy, a lot of research and financial modeling are involved. Buy-side analysts' research is specific to whether a specific investment is appropriate and is for maximum value addition to the company.