Last Man Standing?

摘要

Each week day just before 8:00a.m., vincentfarinarnarrives at his office on the tenth floor of 20 Broad Street in lower Manhattan, upstairs from the New York Stock Exchange. He pours himself a cup of coffee, reads his e-mail and checks the overnight markets on his Bloomberg Terminal.Then at about 9:00 a.m., half anhour before the opening bell, Farina goes down to his firm's station on the NYSE trading floor and greets the six other members of his trading crew.rnFor most of his 40-plus-year career, Farina would spend the bulk of the trading session on the floor, personally executing his clients' most sensitive orders. In recent years, though, as the Big Board and its customers have shifted more and more of their orders to faster, electronic trading systems, Farina has been heading back upstairs earlier and earlier. On a recent Friday morning, with no orders to handle, he was back at his desk by 10:45 a.m.