A question to English native speakers

Hi. During my studies I was asked to translate a short text from English to Polish. It was quite a cool thing but I have one thing which I don't understand, namely the noun: 'a numbers boy' . I put this in Google but there were no matching results...Who the hell is a numbers boy? A stockbroker, a financier or something? Does such expression exist in English anyway? Maybe it's a coloquial word particular for a certain slang? Really have no idea. Hope you can help me out.

"An interpreter has to think as fast as a numbers boy in a coloured jacket buying financial futures"

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Never heard of the term "numbers boy" but in the case above a more correct term would be, broker, trader or scalper.

A numbers boy in a coloured jacket is a floor trader working in a stock exchange. Stock market trader is the term you are looking for.

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Thank you very much Now I see that my guesses were quite close.

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more literally, he's the kid that would be on the chalkboard of stock exchanges of old, having everyone yelling at him and making weird hand signals

MikaHalpinen Wrote:
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> more literally, he's the kid that would be on the
> chalkboard of stock exchanges of old, having
> everyone yelling at him and making weird hand
> signals

Not just stock exchanges of old. Brokers are still having hand signals directed at them on a frequent basis.

*applauds*

Sim

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