stock ticker

English

Alternative forms

• stock-ticker, stockticker

Noun

stock ticker (plural stock tickers)

1. A device, used primarily in the 20th century, which printed prices and volumes of stock trades on paper tape as the data became available.
   • 1893, Clarence W. Barron, Joseph Gregory Martin, The Boston Stock Exchange:

     ... whose instruments are located directly on the floor of the Exchange, who transmit them instantly to the quotation companies, and in a few seconds the prices are carried by the stock-ticker into the brokers' office, the banks, banking houses...

2. Any device or display showing price and volumes of stock trades as the data become available.

Derived terms

• stock ticker symbol

 

Translations

device, used primarily in the 20th century

• German: Börsenticker m

any device or display showing price and volumes of stock trades

• German: Börsenticker m

See also

• news ticker
• ticker tape