Before I started to work on Wall Street I had no idea about what it looked like on a trading floor or no idea what people were actually doing. So after 2 years I kind of know what it looks like but I am still working on figuring out what people are doing :-).
Anyway.. I thought I might share a window to wall street or at least a window for my family to see what it looks like were I sit 10h-14h a day.
Here is a picture of my workspace. The top screen calculates how much money I and my team is losing. The one to the left is message central that keeps track of my email and chats with other traders. Second from left is Excel - the place where I create my models, do my calculations and figure out what the most probably scenario for a security is. The other middle screen is my security monitor where I keep track of everything from the stock market, trading volume, oil prices and steepness of yield curve. The screen to the far right is my trading platform were I buy and sell stocks (green means buy - red means sell - "so easy a Harvard student could do it" - that is our motto this year since our Summer intern that sits next to me comes from Harvard)
The big black thing below the screens is my phone -I can use it to contact the Millenium Falcon with -but also just push a button and I get connected to other traders instead of dialing a bunch of numbers which would be sub-optimal when you want something traded quick. \
Most importantly to the left under some papers you can see the same calculator that kicked ass in Fyris-skolans mattematik-tavling for nastan 15 ar sedan - fortfarande en forbannat bra miniraknare!
As you can see I have 2 keyboards and 2 mouse's because all this stuff needs 2 computers to run. So these 2 computer - 5 screens and TV-monitors and stuff is just to figure out 1 basic concept
BUY LOW - SELL HIGH - That is all it is.
-Barfotabarn
