The Legacy Trader is Dead. Long Live the Computational Trader.

The great extinction event of intuition, and the ascent of hard science and algorithms.

We just don’t see them around these days, except for the almost mandatory presence on daytime television. We have to assume they have become extinct in the wild.

Technically, they sat somewhere between the lines of what defines a broker and a trader. Regardless of what they should be named, their figure has been etched in the popular imagination. Movies …