floor trader

American  

noun

1. a member of a stock or commodity exchange who executes orders on the floor of the exchange for their own account.

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Example Sentences

The longtime floor trader survived several of what he calls “it-looks-like-the-end-of-the-world” markets: Black Monday in 1987; the Great Financial Crisis; the pandemic.

From The Wall Street Journal

Nicholson’s father was a floor trader in the Treasury bond futures pit at the Chicago Board of Trade.

From Barron's

Nicholson’s father was a floor trader in the Treasury bond futures pit at the Chicago Board of Trade.

From Barron's

“I think we’re standing at the edge of a similar run today,” says Rational Equity Armor Fund portfolio manager Joe Tigay, who lived through the dot-com boom and bust as a floor trader.

From Barron's

Under the terms of the bet, when Mr. Van Peebles lost, he had to go to work as a floor trader.

From Washington Post