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Floor Traders Short Sales Ratio
The Floor Traders Short Sales Ratio is computed by dividing the total floor traders short sales by total short sales. A moving average should be applied to smooth out the swings.

 


Floor Traders
The third type is the floor trader or "local". These are people who buy and sell for their own accounts directly on the trading floors of the exchanges.

Floor traders (locals). Exchange members who execute their own trades by being physically present in the pit, or place for futures trading.
Foreign exchange. The mechanism that values foreign currencies in terms of another currency.

Floor Traders
Employees of brokerage firms working on exchange trading floors.
Flyers
Speculative or high-risk trades.

Classic Floor Traders Pivot Points
Classic pivot points are the most commonly used pivot points and rely on the high, low and close of the previous period to calculate the main pivot point using the formula: ...

Floor traders who have immediate access to the futures and the corresponding options trading pit of a market are best positioned to execute day trades quickly and effectively. They are the first to receive any information originating from the pit.

Floor traders gunning for stops is more an art than science, as market conditions have to be just right for their efforts to pay off.

Floor traders that make their living by trading a particular entity.
Lower shadows
The trading range below the body of a candle.

Terms used by floor traders to signify buying and selling. Mainly used in forex transactions.

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Floor traders locals : Exchange members who execute their own trades by b... FOMC : See Federal Open Market Committee. Forward Deal : A deal with a value date greater than the spot value date.

Floor traders : See Floor traders locals.
Floor traders locals : Exchange members who execute their own trades by being physi...
FOMC : See Federal Open Market Committee.
Foreign Exchange : Abbreviated FOREX or FX.

Using pivot points as a trading strategy has been around for a long time and was originally used by floor traders.

Definition: An age-old stock exchange where floor traders buy and sell large volumes of stock. TeenAnalyst Advice: The New York Stock Exchange is the oldest stock exchange in the country.

Market Maker System A competitive trading environment where floor traders create efficiency and liquidity by competing with each other to provide the best bids and offers.

Most floor traders want to take the market to areas where stops are located so that they can scalp those values. Where are the stops located?

Market makers unlike specialists or floor traders can work remotely from offices. Market makers trade on an electronic system run by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) and have done so since 1971, when the Nasdaq began operations.

Floor traders and dealing desks have been applying the methodology for decades in the currency market.

Floor traders generally attempt to profit from short-term price swings. They tend to add liquidity to the market and are required to make at least 75% of their trades against the last price change in the security traded.

Usage of pivot points has been done through the ages by floor traders as it gave them an easy method to obtain an idea of where the markets are headed on any given day utilizing a few simple calculations.

After a short discussion he turned his presentation to trader psychology AND work he was doing in training floor traders through the emotional aspects of trading.

An option margining system used by some exchanges for exchange members and/or floor traders which equates the changes in option premiums with the changes in the price of the underlying futures contract or physical commodity.
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Hand Held Terminal: A small computer terminal used by floor brokers or floor traders on an exchange to record trade information and transmit that information to the clearing organization.

Competitive traders, also known as registered competitive traders or floor traders, buy and sell stocks for their own accounts on the floor of an exchange. Traders must follow very specific rules governing when they can buy and sell.

The name Pink Sheets probably came from the pieces of paper that floor traders used to exchange while trading such stocks. The papers happened to be pink in colour.

Today many investment firms on both the buy side and sell side are increasing their spending on technology for electronic trading.[citation needed] Many floor traders and brokers are being removed from the trading process.

Popularized during the bull market of the late 1990s, day trading is the practice of buying and selling stocks over a very short period of time, typically one day. Once the domain of floor traders and investment banks, ...

If tarder putting stops in the market as they really are may not be a correct decision, especially when tight stops are being used Floor traders may try to gun the stops to pick up a few ticks for themselves.
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A low demand for a stock translates to the market being offered down to the lowest price at which a person is willing to sell. Off-floor traders buy at the ask price and sell at the bid price.

Group of Exchange members with a defined area of function tending to congregate around a trading Post pending Execution of orders. Includes specialists, Floor traders, odd-lot dealers, ...

Running Stops: Something which when quoted, floor traders use to move the market. When stops are bunched together, traders may move the market in order to activate stop orders and propel the market further.

CTI2 Market Profile terminology for commercial clearing members, as opposed to CTI1, local floor traders.

See also: Market, Trader, Floor, Trading, Future