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- noun computing, finance A
computer system orservice that providesstock market quotations
Etymologies
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Examples
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We used to use a machine called a Quotron in those days ...
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In 1960, the first stock market quotation system, later known by its trade-name Quotron, was installed in investment offices.
Knox 2009
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"Give me a Quotron," he quipped, referring to the stock quote machines once ubiquitous on Wall Street trading floors.
Power And Pleasure Anita Raghavan 2010
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And I remember watching the Quotron tick down by 100 points.
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He said he had heard that Quotron the primary supplier of desktop information quote machines was building a “work station of the future.”
Hot Prospects Bill Good 2008
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He said he had heard that Quotron the primary supplier of desktop information quote machines was building a “work station of the future.”
Hot Prospects Bill Good 2008
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"I can remember standing in front of a Quotron machine in a crowd of people and mouths were just hanging open," she says.
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Mr. Posner's most vivid memory of that day is watching his colleagues stand -- 10 or so to a group -- and just stare at their Quotron screens as stock prices plunged.
For Fund Managers, 2007
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Hall, but he got to go out and see people and talk to the powers that be to try to get their money, and it gave him something to do because he literally was sitting there, watching a Quotron for a year-and-a-half, trying to do deals, and nothing was happening.
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An acquaintance of mine who trades actively goes jogging with a portable handheld Quotron screen, and checks it every few moments; a quick call from a pay phone can avert disaster—provided he has a quarter in his shorts.
Executive Economics SHLOMO MAITAL 1994
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