Thousands of jostling traders once packed the floors of Chicago’s futures exchanges, before the advent of high-speed ...

Floor trading allows for showmanship and to simplify large, complicated orders. The Open Outcry System . Open outcry was a system used by traders at all stock exchanges and futures exchanges.

A new free exhibit at the Chicago Board of Trade Building is meant to help rejuvenate the vacancy-ridden heart of the Loop.

The chief executive of one of the New York Stock Exchange's top trading firms said that the human element of the Big Board's operations, the so-called floor, "should be shut" because it's a ...

The vast bulk of trading of New York Stock Exchange-listed shares moved away from the NYSE floor years ago, but the death knell for human-interactive trading may have been sounded recently when ...

Susan Certoma remembers those big trading floors. Touring them when they opened in the mid- to late 1990s – whether the massive 103,000-square-foot trading floor run by UBS in Stamford, Conn., or ...

Every day, trading on exchanges impacts people around the planet. Stock exchanges affect companies and economies. Commodity exchanges (trading energy, agriculture, metals and related products ...

For nearly three years, the trading floor of the Minneapolis Grain Exchange -- a glorious symbol of the city's storied past as a milling empire -- sat empty, its future uncertain. The ...

Trading floor pranks reveal the lighter side of high-stakes finance, showcasing camaraderie among traders. Business Insider Subscribe Newsletters ...