Nasdaq Nasdaq headquarters in Times Square. Nasdaq stands for National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation system, is the automated electronic stock exchange largest United States. With more than 3,800 companies and corporations, trade volume has more per hour than any other stock exchange in the world. list more than 7,000 shares of small and mid-caps. It is characterized by understanding the high-tech companies in electronics, computers, telecommunications, biotechnology, etc.. Their representative indexes are the NASDAQ 100 and the Nasdaq Composite. Its main office is in New York. Its current executive director is Robert Greifeld. It was founded by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) and privatized in a series of sales in 2000 and 2001. Owned and operated by the NASDAQ Stock Market Company, which was listed on its own stock exchange system in 2002 (NASDAQ: NDAQ).The Nasdaq has its roots in the petition of the United States Congress to the commission that regulates the stock market (Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC) to conduct a study on the safety of the markets. The preparation of this report found that unregulated markets were not transparent. The SEC proposed automation and hence arose the NASDAQ Stock Market, whose first meeting took place on 8 February 1971. Between 1997 and 2000, prompted public enterprises and in 1649 the process generated 316.5 billion dollars. Alan Quasha After a major restructuring in 2000, Nasdaq became a for-profit company and wholly governed by shareholders. Currently continues to increase its capacity in the volume of transactions, being capable of transaction 6 billion shares a day. Today, Nasdaq's headquarters is housed in a building in Times Square in New York and has become a curious tourist attraction for visitors who flock to the city.One of its presidents was Bernard Madoff, former Wall Street trader who in December 2008 (and as president of Madoff Investment Securities in New York) accused of a gigantic fraud. Citation needed