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trading floor

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noun

  1. the area in a bank or stock exchange where securities are traded

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Liu made outsize profits for Vitol, where he was one of the leaders on the trading floor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

"I had a degree of fearlessness. I had a bit of - dare I say - glib charm. I wasn't hugely emotionally affected by things that happened on the trading floor."

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

Two rising stars in quantum computing are charting vastly different courses to the public trading floor.

From Barron's ● May 14, 2026

People who’ve never worked on a trading floor are moving markets with informed wagers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 2026

Once, out of curiosity, Van Riper and Klein and a group of about a dozen Marine Corp generals flew to the Mercantile Exchange in New York to visit the trading floor.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell

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