This included traders who worked at banks, hedge funds, exchange floors, proprietry trading companies, independent firms, private offices, insurance companies, asset management firms, energy firms, and other trading locales.
Prices were updated by stock exchange orange buttons who, if they could be bothered, would walk around the stock exchange floor and ask jobbers if anything had changed.
Less than twenty percent of its annual revenues come from stock trading, and only a small percent of that is actually done by people on the stock exchange floor.
