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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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“It might be early innings for this change in strategy from Strategy,” said Joshua Lim, global co-head of markets at crypto trading firm FalconX.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026

Hyperliquid was founded three years ago by Jeff Yan, a former quant trader at high-frequency trading firm Hudson River Trading.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 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

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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