Nymex Floor Traders

Trading floor technology services staff work to ensure a state of the art trading environment for market participants on the cme group trading floor.

Nymex floor traders. It was home to traders and brokers who did the actual buying selling and negotiating on the physical exchange. Like luskin many current and former members lamented the gritty environment of the floor that built not. Floor trading in those contracts fell just 3 percent last month according to the exchange. The floor of the stock exchange was once the main location for market transactions.

Nymex is a commodities trading exchange that started in 1872 and was acquired by cme group in 2008. The exchange lists futures and options on various metals energy and agricultural commodities. View of the nymex trading floor. Nymex maintained a close relationship with many organizations and people at world trade center and after the attacks the nymex built a 12 million trading floor backup facility outside of new york city with 700 traders booths 2 000 telephones and a backup computer system.

Located on the trading floor immediately east of the out trade area our staff provides administrative and technical support for all trading floor technologies including cwi mf and telecommunications. For traders on the floor of the new york mercantile exchange the demise of commodity volatility this year only adds insult to the injury done by electronic trading.