A floor trader is an exchange member who executes transactions from the floor of the exchange, exclusively for their own account. Floor traders used to use the open outcry method in the pit of a ...

“This is what I’m doing to remain a trader until 2010. When I’m in my 50s, I can still be here trading.” As one former floor trader who made the transition to screen trading puts ...

As a single trader, I can’t expect to have the information that a Merrill Lynch or another big firm with a weather department will have. But I can see what is going on in the pit (on the floor ...

A wave of ground-breaking innovation and lower volumes has forced floor traders to face a new reality: a smaller, more intimate trading floor. Susan Certoma remembers those big trading floors. Touring ...

A runner is short-hand for a junior broker-dealer employee who delivers a trade order to the broker's floor trader for execution. Runners are often entry-level positions which lead to clerks and ...

An individual can not start a trading floor but can become a trader or a broker to represent the firm or the clients to execute their orders on the trading floor.