trading firm

American

[trayd-ing furm] / ˈtreɪd ɪŋ ˈfɜrm /

noun

plural

trading firms

Finance. a company or institution whose main purpose is to buy and sell securities.

Example Sentences

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A potential failure of a highly-levered trading firm could have tremendous impact on bank balance sheets, the analysts say.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 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 Wednesday.

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

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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