Price movements would come in from realtime data feeds from exchanges.
News would be realtime too. The traders in the pits would have a floating number above their head, whether they are bidding or offering, and it would be color coded. So if everyone starts selling it would turn red in the pit.
If everyone is buying it would turn green.
You would be able to set lot size, so you would always be buying and selling a fixed lot size.
So with the controller, it would be always targeted at the floor broker or another trader, and based on the brokers book, you could try to scalp with the pit. Order flow assignment would come in from a timestamped order in the que. So if you were the first to place your order at current offer or bid, yours would get hit first by the floor broker. Then you could immediately try to scalp out and based on the floor brokers orders, you could immediately make the spread. You would never be able to trade outside the spread.
It would as close to pit trading as you could get apart from being there.
Hand signals would be accurate and representative of the quote.
News would be realtime too. The traders in the pits would have a floating number above their head, whether they are bidding or offering, and it would be color coded. So if everyone starts selling it would turn red in the pit.
If everyone is buying it would turn green.
You would be able to set lot size, so you would always be buying and selling a fixed lot size.
So with the controller, it would be always targeted at the floor broker or another trader, and based on the brokers book, you could try to scalp with the pit. Order flow assignment would come in from a timestamped order in the que. So if you were the first to place your order at current offer or bid, yours would get hit first by the floor broker. Then you could immediately try to scalp out and based on the floor brokers orders, you could immediately make the spread. You would never be able to trade outside the spread.
It would as close to pit trading as you could get apart from being there.
Hand signals would be accurate and representative of the quote.