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trading firm

American  
[trayd-ing furm] / ˈtreɪd ɪŋ ˈfɜrm /

noun

trading firms plural
  1. Finance. a company or institution whose main purpose is to buy and sell securities.


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“The market has to assume he has information that the public is not privy to,” said Jim Ritterbusch, who runs his own oil advisory trading firm.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026

Jane Street, the notoriously secretive quantitative trading firm, committed $6 billion to deploy and scale its AI tools on CoreWeave’s cloud platform, the two companies announced.

From Barron's • Apr. 15, 2026

The trading firm uses tens of thousands of graphics processing units to develop neural networks informing its trading strategies.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 15, 2026

The alleged trading firm even deposited over $1 million of capital on Drift’s platform.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

They longed for a relationship with some big Wall Street trading firm and mentioned the desire to their accountant.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

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