| Here's what that means on a day-to-day basis: |
| 07:00 |
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| Wake up, check Blackberry to see if there were any problems with overseas or overnight trading |
| 08:30 |
| Arrive at the office, start working through overnight emails and place online lunch order |
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| 09:30 |
| Coffee break; monitor opening of U.S. markets |
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| 10:00 |
| Meet with developers to review latencies and throughputs in the trading system over the past week |
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| 11:00 |
| Review ongoing development projects, reprioritizing as needed |
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| 12:00 |
| Lunch arrives: noodle soup from a local Thai restaurant; monitor European market closing |
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| 13:00 |
| Analyze the effects of recent changes to the trading infrastructure on trading response times |
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| 14:00 |
| Meet with market data team to discuss acquisition of new feeds and enhancements to existing feeds |
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| 15:00 |
| Meet with data center management and system administrators to strategize migration to a new data center |
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| 16:00 |
| Monitor U.S. market closing |
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| 17:00 |
| Analyze liquidity, execution quality and latencies of new trading venues |
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| 18:30 |
| Meet friends at park for outdoor concert and picnic dinner |
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| 20:00 |
| Between sets, use Blackberry to monitor Asian market openings and exchange email with Asian brokers about changes to stock loan procedures |
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| 23:00 |
| One final Blackberry check to ensure that things are running smoothly in Asia |
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