Re:'Flash Boys' IEX stock exchange opens for business
by kchoudhu on Saturday August 20, 2016 @04:14AM
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> It isn't even automated.
Yes. No. Maybe. There's a massive push towards exchange trading the more liquid products: traders are expensive, and if you can get a robot to do basic inventory management and market making for you (even with a human in the loop), that's savings for a desk manager looking to cut costs in a highly straightened FI environment.
The highly distressed and/or exotic stuff that people are talking about in the Big Short are still slung by salespeople, with the connivance/approval of traders.
Yes. No. Maybe. There's a massive push towards exchange trading the more liquid products: traders are expensive, and if you can get a robot to do basic inventory management and market making for you (even with a human in the loop), that's savings for a desk manager looking to cut costs in a highly straightened FI environment.
The highly distressed and/or exotic stuff that people are talking about in the Big Short are still slung by salespeople, with the connivance/approval of traders.