Trading in the Pre-Digital Era: A Journey from Hand-Drafted Charts to Modern Decision-Making

We obviously had to trade end of day. We didn't have intraday data and so on. If you wanted to trade intraday, we didn't have the charts. I remember we had a firm called Jackson's Brokers when I first started trading. And you'd go into the room and you have the Gruyters green screen showing the prices. And my wife would sit next to me and she'd tell me the high and low price every 15 minutes or so and I'd write it down and then I'd chart it. And so we're drafting half hourly charts by hand. That's what trading in terms of technology was concerned. But as far as decision making is concerned, was probably no different than us today.