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davislane1
My dad's one of the last remaining floor traders. As far as I know his is the last futures pit where they still trade via open outcry.
Is he a CME floor trader? I believe that's the last exhange with physical pits. Actually had a couple instructors who started their careers there.
I'm an IT analyst/developer for a large institutional investor, so I work on the systems that do accounting, taxes, and reporting for their managed investments (stocks, bonds, derivs, other fixed income etc). So when @davislane1 decides to short a pile of futures, the tax dept will use the system I designed to make sure those futures are properly hedged against some long treasury or corporate bonds so the auditors don't fine us into the next century.
So far I count in this thread...
1 trader, 1 financial analyst, 1 IT analyst/dev with substantial financial industry experince.
We're a lawyer short of being able to start a hedge fund.