A floor trader is required to pass a screening process before trading on an exchange. The National Futures Association requires floor trader applicants to file the following: Form 8-R completed ...

Location: NYMEX The Prank: One former commodities trader told us in the '80s they had a prank called "high tide" in the silver pits. "In the chaotic busy days of trading we would take extra-large ...

Borsellino’s bombed. “I’m not a restaurateur, I’m a trader,” he said. But all traders aren’t created equal, and what works on the floor doesn’t always work on the screen.

Wall Street’s iconic trader, who recently beat COVID-19, says he’s happy to be going back to the New York Stock Exchange on May 26, when the trading floor is set to re-open. “I love what I ...

Over a dozen firms or so have quit the floor, or merged with larger firms, since the start of 2018, leaving about 35 in business, according to official data. That’s down from hundreds in the 1990s.