Quote from stonedinvestor:
My Grandfather Jerry had an oval machine at the top of his closet- yes it was an original ticker. Before Bloomberg was even a thought in the belly of Mrs. Bloomberg- the exchange would sell these tape tickers to folks who actively traded but were a stage below owning a seat.
My grandfather and two of his friends used the machine in a little office in the North Fork of Long Island. As a child I would take it down and look at the gears-- the gears that drive modern society. There were pieces of tape in their too with symbols of long gone steel companies and banks. What a great machine. Then one day when I was away Grandma decided to clean out the closet. Grandpa Jerry was long dead by then I must of been all of eleven and didn't realize the great crime she was about to commit. She walked the gizmo down the hall and left it with the elevator man to take to the garbage. That tape reader by all accounts could pay for my child's college if I still had it.
The reason I say this is because I am an old fashioned tape reader. The mechanism of tape reading gives a true feel of how monies are input and withdrawn. I watch the screen almost non-stop from beginning bell to closing bell and I see the same patterns appearing that have the DNA of foreign buying.
No Sir you are not an old fashioned tape reader- I am. ~ stoney
Yeah so put that in your pipe and smoke it.... Go SI........