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driven. There was a certain psychology that you could feel when people moved that markets lack now.”
Mentors Hinmon stresses the importance of mentors when asked what has had the greatest impact on her career to date. It’ s these relationships that have led her to her current seat, driven by her own desire to keeping asking questions and learning. It was when she was first working on the Midwest floor that she began to become interested in other areas of the markets.
“ I went to the head of derivatives and said,‘ could you please explain to me why you ' re trading this stock and what it is for?’ He ended up having me come over for an hour a week to sit with his team to learn what he did and why.
" Relevance is important in any business but even more so with the shifts that we see in ours and the constant changes with regulation, product, algorithms, exchanges and trading venues. You have to understand how they function, why they function and
“ If a select few are getting access to liquidity that others are not, how can we really say there is price discovery in our markets?”
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