trading floors
Where deals happen
Trading floors are the physical spaces in stock exchanges, investment banks, and commodity markets where traders buy and sell securities, currencies, or commodities.
Before electronic trading, these were chaotic scenes of shouting brokers and hand signals—open outcry trading.
Most trading has moved to computers, leaving many trading floors quiet or ceremonial: The New York Stock Exchange trading floor is now mostly for television appearances.
- transactionsExchanges of value
- pitFruit's hard seed
- stocksOwnership stakes or inventory
- commoditiesTradeable raw materials
- equitiesOwnership stakes in corporations
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- Finance WorldWall Street, stock exchange, stock exchanges, banks, central banks
- Brokeragesstockbrokers, brokers, securities, commissions, brokerage fees
- commodities tradingcommodities, commodity markets, commodity prices, futures, futures contracts
- Diamondsdiamonds, carats, facets, polished diamonds, rough diamonds
- grain tradegrain market, grain exchange, grain exports, grain prices, grain futures
- market bubblesbubble, asset bubble, tulip mania, dot-com bubble, housing bubble
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Reinforced secure storage chambers
safe deposit boxes · cold storage · retirement accounts · index funds
trading floorshome offices
Workspaces within residences
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