Manual Trader

  

A human. Old school.

"I'll take 10,000 contracts for the January $45 puts on KO at a buck twenty." No robots. No computers. Just a phone, a fat guy with a beard, and a spreadsheet. Humans manually trading, likely for their proprietary trading post inside of a large investment bank.

Computers are just less spill-y than fat guys with beards.

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