Floor broker

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Floor broker
A Floor Broker is a member of an exchange who is an employee of a member firm and executes orders, as agent, on the floor of the exchange for clients. The floor broker receives an order via teletype machine from his firm's trading department and then proceeds to the appropriate trading post on the exchange floor. There he joins other brokers and the specialist in the security being bought or sold and executes the trade at the best competitive price available. On completion of the transaction the customer is notified through his registered representative back at the firm and the trade is printed on the consolidated ticker tape which is displayed electronically around the country. A floor broker should not be confused with a Floor Trader who trades as a principal for his or her own account, rather than as a broker.
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Floor broker
Used for listed equity securities. Member of an exchange who is an employee of a member firm and executes orders, as agent, on the floor of the exchange for clients.

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Floor broker
A person who executes orders on the trading floor of an exchange on behalf of other people. They are also known as pit brokers because the trading area has steps down into a "pit" where the brokers stand to execute their trades.

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