Traders are still trading on the floor of.
Do floor traders still exist.
I ve always wondered why there are still people on the floor of the new york stock exchange.
After working as a runner and clerk on the trading floor he was a trader on the screen for years before asking last year to return to the floor as a trader in the 10 year treasury options pit.
The days of pit trading have ended.
Why the new york stock exchange nyse still has human brokers on the trading floor quartz.
However a few exchanges still have physical traders on the floor or located at the exchange.
Execs acknowledge that the traders are useful for marketing but say there s more to it than that.
Floor trading still exists but it is responsible for a rapidly diminishing share of market activity just 10 in 2017 according to a cnbc report.
Skilled floor brokers can often get better execution better pricing by working the order with other traders something that electronic systems generally cannot do so well.
Non electronic stock exchanges still exist because they used to exist.
One example is the london metal exchange which still trades parts of the session in a ring which is synonymous with a pit.
There are a lot of people in trading firms who grew up with floor trading and don t want to give it up either because they feel more comfortable with it or because they might lose their job if they went away from it.
Listener john wang who dabbles in a little online trading wrote in to ask this.
Still by relying on trading floor photos we have been distorting the truth rather than reporting it.