trading places

Ever since the flat screen, trading rooms and trading desk setups have become more and more extreme, a symbol of the culture of leveraged trading that disappeared in today’s meltdown.

Here are some of the most interesting trading places and trading gear, from the slick, modern Frankfurt stock exchange, Geneva’s weird trading ring that (appropriately) looks like the set for the Weakest Link game show and a ridiculous 20 screen setup for a spotty-adolescent looking Hedge Fund manager.

If you are looking to get a tricked out multi screen trading setup to browse the web, the second hand market is going to look pretty good.

 
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"The largest securities trading floor in the world. The 103,000 square-foot operation has 40 foot arched ceiling freeing it of columns or walls. The size of three football fields, it is home to 1,400 traders and staff who handle about $1 trillion worth of transactions a day. It is roughly 227 feet wide by 410 feet long. UBS officials have boasted that a 747 jet could turn around in it"
This looks exactly like the set for the weakest link - how appropriate
This desk accommodates 16 currency traders who must maintain visual contact between each other in order to execute trades.