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It was home to traders and brokers who did the actual buying, selling, and negotiating on the physical exchange floor. Those same brokers and traders are now surrounded by computers that manage the majority of the buying and selling of stocks for their various accounts. Open outcry was a system used by traders at all stock exchanges and futures exchanges. Traders communicate verbally and via hand signals to convey trading information, along with their intentions and acceptance of trades in the trading pit.
Signals tend to vary based on the exchange. Just like an auction , anyone who participates and is part of the trading pit are able to compete for orders through the open outcry system. This system of trading may appear to be chaotic and disorganized, but it is actually quite orderly. These signals may represent different types of orders, a price, or the number of shares intended to be part of the trade. Specialists maintain a book of all open orders for a stock or for a group of stocks. Nowadays, few exchanges actually have trading that takes place physically on the floor through the open outcry system.
With many exchanges adopting automated systems in the s, floor trading was gradually replaced with telephone trading. A decade later, those system began to be replaced with computerized networks as exchanges began to develop and move to electronic trading platforms. Not only did these automated systems make the trading process simpler, they also helped traders improve on the speed of their trades.
Electronic trading systems also cut down on error, reduce costs, and, more importantly, help eliminate the possibility of interference and manipulation by unscrupulous brokers and dealers. This can be anywhere from half a penny per share or five cents a share, the floor broker explained. The stock market opens at a. If someone asks for a "look" in the middle of the day, that means finding out some color on the stock such as who's been buying, who's been selling, any rumors or news that's out.
Then around a. Also we have face-to face contact when trying to find the other side or complete a trade. Things start to get crazy around p.
At p. The next ten or fifteen minutes are spent making sure everything closed OK and there are no problems. The floor of the NYSE is the symbol of Wall Street, so yes, when they show the floor, they relate the financial crisis to the floor.
I've said before, 'Hello, we don't trade mortgage backed securities here," our source said. Almost all the trading we down here is electronic, but with a human touch. For example, all the brokers have hand-held computers like mini iPads, which are constantly updated with news releases.
They also have access to any and every OMS, algo, or computer program. There's also a good amount of former athletes and army vets on the floor, our source said. Those are more important things than your GPA and college," the source said. The work environment on the floor is "very fast-paced.
These days there's more IM chatting than talking on the phone and more computers down here trading that human yelling and screaming, our source explained. People always have each others back even though they may have fought that morning. It's kind of like a brother-sister relationship. Our source added that they do a lot of charity work and "will always help out a fellow floor broker's sick kid or parents. You have to know somebody to get down here.
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