December 27, Kathmandu. 

Nepal Stock Exchange (NEPSE)’s much awaited new feature that allows the investors to see the ‘market depth’ online will be implemented from Sunday.

It will enable the investors to get knowledge about the position of buying and selling orders of listed companies in the NEPSE. “They need not to depend on the securities brokers to know about the transactions of shares of any companies,” said Sita Ram Thapaliya, general manager of NEPSE.

Only the securities brokers had been enjoying the facility so far.

According to Thapaliya, NEPSE introduced the feature with the objective of allowing the investors to have more information about the market and make the securities market more transparent.

Market depth refers to the number of open buy and sell orders for a security or currency at different prices with real time updates.

According to Investopedia, an online dictionary, the depth of market measure provides an indication of the liquidity and depth for the respective securities.

 NEPSE has completed all preparations to introduce the market depth by Saturday evening.

The investors now can get the information about the buy and sell orders, set price, and net demand and supply of shares of companies they would like to buy.

All these information will be available online at the NEPSE website.

Investors in most of the countries can see the market depth. However, NEPSE introduced this facility to the Nepalese investors after about two decades of its establishment.