Epilogue
From a trader’s perspective, the trading floor is the center of the financial market universe. Trading floors make the financial markets go round and financial markets make the world go round. What value do trading floors add?
- Trading floors intermediate between issuer clients and investor clients in the primary debt and equity markets.
- Trading floors facilitate access to exchange traded products for their clients.
- Trading floors provide liquidity for their clients in secondary, currency, commodity and derivative markets and as a result take risk.
- Trading floors intermediate between tailored derivatives for their clients and standardized derivatives, which are used to hedge and as a result take risk.
- Trading floors provide liquidity ...