How To Get A Job On The Trading Floor

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How to get a job on the trading floor.

The general purpose of a trading floor is to give traders a specific place where they can buy and sell stocks and options. Apply to product manager analyst investment banking analyst and more. Trading floor is a place where traders buy and sell fixed income securities shares commodities foreign exchange options etc. In this case you are being hired by a company to work on their trading floor a division that trades company money.

This is more common with financial and commodity companies that also have a trading floor. It can be defined as that segment of the market where the trading activities by the dealers in the financial instruments like equities debt derivatives bonds futures take place they take place in various. Before the electronic era trading relied heavily on these trading floors. Proponents of the trading pit say having people on the floor can help relay the message of the pit and can help provide an assessment of a trader s intentions behind a buy or sell move.

The trading floor is a large room with several circular arenas known as pits. Hours for this job are typically long from eight to 12 hours per day. The pits have a flat center and broad steps ascending concentrically to the edge the steps ensure that traders can see each other.