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Word has it Protrader plans to keep what they consider Wholesale business, i.e. Proprietary trading floors and offices they call OSJs. Retail continues to loose money so the last trading floor will closed and the individual traders sitting at home will be eventually cut off. Management and...

Best to stay away from Protrader. I have the feeling that anyday the doors will be locked for good and anyone who held positions overnight will be screwed big time! They are putting all their efforts into the wholesale side (ie. Zone, etc.) and probably will be closing down the retail side...

I had heard all floors were closed. Just found out that Austin is still operating. Most of Austin's employees have moved to Corp., some I consider friends, talking with them is how I get the buzz. p.s. And a couple are enemys!

Well they have closed all of their 19 trading floors except Austin as I just found out. They were supposed to move the few remaining Austin traders to empty offices at their Corp. location but have been dragging their feet. Reuters is now rumored to be in talks of an “asset sale”...

Which "pod" are you at on the Austin Floor? I thought that trading floor had closed? I left a few months ago, I couldn't stand that fugly manager. And the Corp. office people were asses. And no tech support, what's that all about?

Trading floors are closed. Dallas used to be the second most profitable floor, but last week was spent moving out all the furniture and PCs. The ten remaining traders from the Austin floor are being moved to the Corp. head quarters and put in empty office space. (that floor used to have 100...

Yes Andy did make about $25 one year, but he also turned around and lost it in about four months! This was when he was trading on the Protrader Austin floor, not at Zone. Zone is the Prop. trading spinoff of Protrader that Instinet didn't want. When the three partners (David, David, and...

I've got a feeling that Protrader will be closing up shop very shortly. With Instinets very bad fourth quarter and their stock price dropping so far, I see them tightening even more. Protrader, who has closed all of it's trading floors is probably the first cut by Instinet and will be the...