Javelin,
If you work on a high-visibility or friction desk - meaning one where you talk to customers or handle their orders all day - in fixed income or whatever, some of us (me
would be really curious to know what it's like - what kind of trades you do, whom they come from, etc.
More specifically, if you are a sales-trader, I would be curious to know what the trend in revenues per station has been like in your product, and how it has been affected by new technologies and shopping/matching facilities!
Have the flows become less visible?
Do customers shop you and then match elsewhere?
Do you steer your own smaller clients into in-house electronic routing alternatives?
Do you make your book available electronically to anyone, or advertise your spread actively?
Thanks either way,
eLROY