There are a lot of pretty cool trading desks out there, as we've shown on our site previously.
But you might say it's not the size of your monitor that matters, but how you use the information on it.
We wanted to go back to see how trading was done before you could even compare your Bloomberg to anyone else's.
That is, before Michael Bloomberg was even born.
With the help of images from the American Museum of Finance in New York, we put together a brief, visual history of trading technology, from ticker tape to the present.
Before it became the New York Stock Exchange, brokers called the main trading room downtown "The Curb Exchange".
Photo from 1915.
That's because half the time, deals would literally be conducted from the curb via hand signals — check it out...
The first stock ticker debuted in November, 1867. It was basically a modified telegraph receiver — someone typed in stock quotes on one end, and they were instantly printed onto the machine's ticker tape at the other. Eventually Thomas Edison patented a better version, and their use exploded.
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