Trading Floor Acoustics and the Birth of Price Discovery
Open outcry pits were engineered sound environments where room shape, body position, and vocal volume determined who set prices, and who got cheated.
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Open outcry pits were engineered sound environments where room shape, body position, and vocal volume determined who set prices, and who got cheated.