The trading floor on CNBC is just for show. Here is where the real trading happens: Nasdaq data center in New Jersey, inside and outside: More info: http://blog.erratasec.com/2013/08/nasdaq-is-neither-in-new-york-nor-on.html#.WOeyWjdtnIU "Nasdaq OMX Group doesn’t own any data centers, but leases a number of facilities. The primary data center for Nasdaq OMX Group (NDAQ) is housed in a Verizon Business facility in Carteret, New Jersey, while its backup facility is operated out of a Verizon Business site in northern Virginia. In Dec. 2009 NASDAQ OMX expanded its colocation agreement with Verizon Business to offer additional colocation space to trading firms engaged in high-frequency trading. NASDAQ also uses the Amazon Web Services cloud computing platform to data on historic trades and lets investors analyze pricing in relation to news events and earnings calls to gauge the market response." https://cryptome.org/2013-info/05/nasdaq/nasdaq-data-center.htm
The most scary thing here?? The size of the parking lot. That's just *freaky* small. Bet they're all hooptie cars, too.
Isaac Newton would like to forget... Edit: According to the below chart he played the South Sea bubble, not the tulip one, but I am sure both would bring back bad memories for him... Edit on square: Newton was born in 1642, so after the tulip bubble. Today I learnt... http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-10/how-isaac-newton-went-flat-broke-chasing-stock-bubble
How to shave off 5 millseconds between NYC and London: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...g-is-about-to-get-5-dot-2-milliseconds-faster This is the underwater vehicle that puts it on the ocean floor: