An important part of stock market research, whether you're day trading Dow futures or you're buying stocks, is to have at least a rudimentary understanding of how transactions are done at the stock market exchanges.

In the first 3 parts of this series of articles on floor traders we looked at the futures and commodities markets. In today's video you get a tour of the New York Stock Exchange.

Enjoy and please post your comments below.

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