Most of the stuff in Star Trek is based on theoretical physics. Anti-matter, bending space to go faster than light. It may never turn out to be true, but blame that on the dorkie haven't seen-light-in-decades research physicists that come up with the stuff. Don't blame the writers who play off of it.
Don't forget the $50,000 a clip to fill the darn thing up with fuel, if you own it. Jet fuel ain't cheap and you can't just pull up to the local Sunoco and say "Yeah fill 'er up with the Supreme. While you're at it, could you check the engines? I think I ran into a few geese on the way over."
Unfortunately this has nothign to do with traders, as SIAC handles nothing on the actual floors of either NYSE or AMEX. Almost all traders on the floor don't even use PCs. People at posts (specialists) use PCs, and its usually windows with Excel. Traders use scientific calculators with the Black-Scholles model stored as a formula, or a hand-held PC given to them by their brokerage house.
SIAC is all back-end: allocation of money and clearing of the transaction. Your right in the fact that traders would never hack a script together, but they probably would never know how to do it in the first place. I've learned that in most cases traders hate coding, and coders hate trading.
I work for a Broker/Dealer, so I know a little about the markets.
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Most of the stuff in Star Trek is based on theoretical physics. Anti-matter, bending space to go faster than light. It may never turn out to be true, but blame that on the dorkie haven't seen-light-in-decades research physicists that come up with the stuff. Don't blame the writers who play off of it.
Don't forget the $50,000 a clip to fill the darn thing up with fuel, if you own it. Jet fuel ain't cheap and you can't just pull up to the local Sunoco and say "Yeah fill 'er up with the Supreme. While you're at it, could you check the engines? I think I ran into a few geese on the way over."
At one point my former company was supposed to develope a FLEX Options trading system for the CBOE. They were going to use Solaris not NT. However, since there has been no news on this front, who knows what they're using. Here's the article anyway. Trading Edge Announces Strategic Partnership With The Chicago Board Options Exchange
Unfortunately this has nothign to do with traders, as SIAC handles nothing on the actual floors of either NYSE or AMEX. Almost all traders on the floor don't even use PCs. People at posts (specialists) use PCs, and its usually windows with Excel. Traders use scientific calculators with the Black-Scholles model stored as a formula, or a hand-held PC given to them by their brokerage house.
SIAC is all back-end: allocation of money and clearing of the transaction. Your right in the fact that traders would never hack a script together, but they probably would never know how to do it in the first place. I've learned that in most cases traders hate coding, and coders hate trading.
I work for a Broker/Dealer, so I know a little about the markets.