If you’ve ever gotten to visit the trading floor at NYSE stock company, you know that the whole trading process is like operating surrounded by of a three-ring circus – but with more than three rings. The stock market trading floor is as large as half of a football field. It is divided into 22 horseshoe-shaped trading posts, each of which has a large counter and about a dozen clerks working at it to process orders. During trading hours, the floor is a constant whirl of activity as over 2,000,000 trades are made each and every trading day.