pit investment & finance definition
The
location of trading activity on futures or options exchanges that use open-outcry trading, a system in which
traders shout out the prices they are willing to buy or sell contracts at.
Around the pits are ascending steps, called rings,
where support staff for traders stand.
See pit in Wall Street Words
A location on a commodities exchange trading floor where the futures of a particular commodity are traded. Also called ring.
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