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Re:U.S. power industry may ask key employees to live at work... by pengaru on Monday March 23, 2020 @04:27PM (#22668382)
Most home offices don't have 16 displays attached to the desk
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Re:U.S. power industry may ask key employees to live at work... by heavenlyblue on Monday March 23, 2020 @05:47PM (#22669172)
I have an acquaintance who’s a trader and the company had installed a 16-display rig in their house last week (London).
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Re:U.S. power industry may ask key employees to live at work... by closeparen on Monday March 23, 2020 @09:31PM (#22670884)
That's more for someone doing the trading than someone designing the trading robot (HFT).
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Re:U.S. power industry may ask key employees to live at work... by leetcrew on Monday March 23, 2020 @04:35PM (#22668464)
mine would if I made that kind of money.
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Re:U.S. power industry may ask key employees to live at work... by kevin_thibedeau on Monday March 23, 2020 @04:39PM (#22668503)
I'm waiting for someone to bring the vertically curved video slot machine displays to market for general use. Those would make a nice personal command center.
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Re:U.S. power industry may ask key employees to live at work... by tachyonbeam on Monday March 23, 2020 @04:39PM (#22668505)
16 displays so you can save the time it would take you to switch desktops and physically move your chair around to look at different windows instead? I bet it looks really fancy and cool.
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Re:U.S. power industry may ask key employees to live at work... by pengaru on Monday March 23, 2020 @05:21PM (#22668894)
I was mostly kidding, though they do tend to have what amounts to a videowall attached to the trading desks from what I've seen in photos shared by friends working in HFT.

What I suspect is a larger barrier is their paranoia. It'd surprise me if any HFT firm was comfortable with equipping the homes of its traders with everything needed from the bespoke software to appropriate hardware etc. They're very protective of their trade secrets and wouldn't want that stuff sitting around in the homes of employees where it can be either copied or otherwise scrutinized.

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