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Trading Floors
Content posted in August 2010
UBS Trading Floor
Trading Floors  |  8/29/2010  | 
With 1,400 seats, 2,000 computers and 5,000 monitors, the UBS trading floor is noted by the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest single trading floor in the world.
Knight Capital's Trading Floor
Trading Floors  |  8/19/2010  | 
As speculation swirls that Knight Capital Group could go of out business after reportedly losing more than $400 million Aug. 1 when a software error misfired a program trade, causing mayhem in 148 listed stocks, regulators have the firm under a microscope. Advanced Trading takes you behind the scenes to view Knight's cavernous trading floor in Jersey City, N.J., where the firm's electronic trading operations and traders are based. Taken two years after it was built, the photos show how the floor is structured and include close-ups of the technology used on specific desks.


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Exclusive: Inside the GETCO Execution Services Trading Floor
Exclusive: Inside the GETCO Execution Services Trading Floor
Advanced Trading takes you on an exclusive tour of the New York trading floor of GETCO Execution Services, the solutions arm of GETCO.