Thank You all..

[OutnumberedOutgunned]

for answering my many noob questions but i got a really silly ones,

why are all the trading firms in london and not in places like leeds etc and why do traders have 8 or 9 screens and two phones, what can you possibly be looking at, are they really that much more technical than a trader from home, do they have more info by trading in london?

 

[Rhody Trader]

The concentration of trading firms is a rather self-supporting sort of thing. There are loads of financial types in London so the trading firms locate there.

As for screen and phones - it depends on what they're doing. I personally could be fine with one screen and no phones for my own trading - and the same for the market analysis I do during my day job.

In terms of info, aside from potential direct face-to-face exchanges, it's not location dependent.

 

[Lee Shepherd]

I couldn't do with less than 3 screens, two for the graphs of my main target markets and one for the trading platform. Although could do with one more for research and another for any other related market I would be following and one more for battlefield 2 for when I'm bored.

 

[grantx]

ONOG,

For one thing, the pubs in the City are livelier from 5:30 to 11:30 than any provincial pub on a Saturday night . Moving from London stockbroking to Manchester stockbroking I asked a director where everyone went for drink after work. Nobody bothers, he said. And he was dead right. A real culture shock.

Grant.