Nyse Floor Layout
The trading floor inside the stock exchange building after renovations in 2010.
Nyse floor layout. The small squads of human traders who remain on the floor at 11 wall st the new york stock exchange s teddy roosevelt era headquarters are for the most part just playing fantasy football. On the floor at the new york stock exchange nyse in new york on may 26 2020. Photo by mario tama getty images news collection getty images the board room. The floor of the stock exchange was once the main location for market transactions.
The trading floor a k a. The floor where trading activities are conducted. It was home to traders and brokers who did the actual buying selling and negotiating on the physical exchange. Trading floors are found in the buildings of various exchanges such as the new york stock exchange and the chicago board of trade.
Board room extends the full length and width of the new york stock exchange building from broad street on the east to new street on the west. Layout and participants the nyse equity trading floor consists of four large adjoining rooms. The garage the main room the blue room and the expanded blue room 3 in the interior of the trading floor are located seventeen trading posts. All trading in a given stock is centralized at that stock s assigned.
Dick grasso a former head of nyse once called paywall the stock exchange the greatest show on earth so far the exchange s famous trading floor has mostly held off automation s advance.