A room in a house made entirely out of electrical wires.
In reality, a wire room is the room, department, collection of cubicles, etc. where all the behind-the-scenes activity of financial transactions takes place. Like...let’s say we place an order with our financial institution to buy 300 shares of Apple stock. That order goes to the institution’s wire room, and the folks working there then immediately route it to the stock exchange, or to our broker. Once the trade is made, notification is sent back to the wire room, and they then communicate that to the investors.
Wire rooms tend to be highly secure, and have pretty exacting accounting and reporting standards. In other words, they track everything they do and make sure they’re doing it securely. That way, if something goes sideways, they can look back through their records and figure out what happened, how, and why.
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Finance, a la shmoop. What is a bucket shop? Anyone see wolf of Wallstreet?
Remember Leo's firm yeah that was a bucket shop, it was set up to fraud, [Bucket shop stamp]
deceive, steal, and basically take advantage of trusting naive rubes
who gave Leo and his partners their money and well they basically did vile [Toilets]
things with it. Bucket shop is a derogatory term coined [Leo holding money toilet paper]
by the Supreme Court actually in a 1905 ruling, in practice bucket shops were
often unregistered financial pool halls where quote investors unquote would bet [Pool tables]
on short term stock moves and well never actually take delivery of a
security. They would just like make the bed and then whatever happened they'd [Men in suits]
settle in cash outside of the security system, think of the bucket shop as a
first derivative of a real brokerage, such that cash comes in and goes out
without a whole lot of logic behind it, it's like betting on what tickers gonna [Stock tickers]
come up next on CNBC at the bottom of the screen you know that thing. Yeah so [Stock ticker appears under the CNBC logo]
that's what that weird logic is or lack of it other than as a reflection of
whether or not Ford ticker F went up a dime or not that day, like that's what [Ford stock price chart]
bucket shops do you're just making bets on random things and yeah Ford the wolf [Chips being placed on a roulette table]
of Wall Street's second favorite F word, fine film though should see it... [The wolf of wall street being played in a theatre]