EVALUATING THE PERFORMANCE OF THE IRAQI STOCK EXCHANGE USING TRADING INDICATORS

Abstract

Performance evaluation is one of the important topics in the financial market, as it represents all aspects of industrial, agricultural and commercial economic activity and the verification of the progress of production processes according to a specific time path. The most important performance evaluation procedure is to analyze and diagnose the resulting deviations, explain their causes, and develop appropriate solutions and future plans. This is the lack of expenditure from financial instruments for others, represented by the shares of some companies and financial lending bonds, as well as the weakness of transparency and financial disclosure. Some financial indicators for financial trading were used, which are the trading volume, traded shares, market value and capital turnover rate. These indicators were used by presenting data and extracting some of them based on the annual bulletins of the financial market for the period (2015 – 2020) h It included all economic sectors contributing to the formation of the gross domestic product, following up on developments and growth that occur in the market, knowing the obstacles that limit development and clarifying their causes. The analytical method was used to research and study the market situation for a certain period of time, which were included in the form of tables in which each financial indicator was clarified. Of the trading indicators with an indication of the annual growth rates of these indicators according to the mentioned period and an analysis for each table, as well as an explanation of the number of companies listed in the market and the extent of the contribution of the percentage of the traded shares' contribution to the GDP, as well as clarification of the market value index, its annual growth rate and the turnover rate of traded shares according to The studied period, as the research reached a set of conclusions and recommendations, the most important of which was the need to encourage financial investment and work to activate the digital economy to encourage investment and overcome the economic crises that it is exposed to (the country and improving the performance and development of the financial market)