Reality for an Individual Trader

The risk management and alpha generation part of the job is not going to get automated away any time soon. The roles that get eliminated are glorified sales people.

they only got rid of cash equity execution traders. Those are monkeys that simply push buttons when the sales force instructs them to do so. It was an easy feat for algos. Market makers in the OTC markets are alive and kicking, though there is momentum building to have them replaced at some point as well. Google Tradeweb, for example. Bloomberg has a competing platform as well. A major trading platform for treasury securities.
 
Ouch! :D
Well, it's the reality. I think it's been a problem on Wall Street that people who should have been building relationships have been instead pretending to generate trading revenue. Relationships have true value and it's one of the few skills that will never get automated - people that realized it early on have done way better.
 
agree, but then how many jobs constitute the true alpha generators. A dozen per bank per banking center?

The risk management and alpha generation part of the job is not going to get automated away any time soon. The roles that get eliminated are glorified sales people.
 
agree, but then how many jobs constitute the true alpha generators. A dozen per bank per banking center?
I think we gonna see 2-3 person market making desks per product - some assets are already there and some will take a few years more. So let's say 10-15 product classes with 2.5 people on average per desk
 
even if you have the news ahead of time, you don't know how the market will react; it's gambling

Except now with all those contextual trading by the algo machines implemented by those big institutions, how the market is actually becoming more predictable so it actually gives an incentive to find out the news ahead of time. Hmmmn...:sneaky:
 
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