TraderTools' keyboard for traders -- all that's missing is the panic button
By Joseph L. Flatley 
posted December 16th 2008 4:23PM
posted December 16th 2008 4:23PM
We don't usually see many gadgets aimed at the high rollers in the foreign exchange market who read this site religiously, so when we ran across this sweet piece of PR for the Al-1 Compact Keyboard for TraderTools' Liquidity Management Platform, we pounced! Sick of all those other trading keyboards that have been piling up with each new piece of software? This guy has been "humanly engineered" to replace all of 'em, with extra large, color-coded keys for the those things you do best -- like destroying the lives of average Americans. Now you can "buy low" and "sell high" with a single keystroke. This keyboard will have you aggregating liquidity with the best of them. There's no word yet on pricing or a release date, but keep your eyes open -- with the way this economy's headed, we're certain these units will be flooding eBay (and estate sales) soon enough.
OOH!! Pick Me!!! I want to press the big red button!!!
ME TOO!!!
You might actually be happier with this:
http://www.uncrate.com/men/gear/computer-peripherals/selfdestruct-button-usb-hub/
That's cheaper on ThinkGeek.
Finally, a way to view my "average executions", etc.!!!
You forgot this guy in the picture:
http://www.adme.ru/files/paedia/reel/part_51/510327/preview_320_260_1.jpg
Thats the little bastard that been posing as Nigerian businessman.
Does is say "This is Sparta" across the top? Please tell me it does...
nope it appears to say "the a xarta"
LOL "This Is Sparta!!!"
The keyboards that come bundled with Bloomberg terminals are more badass. Then again, I doubt this keyboard will be tied to a system that costs $1800 dollars per month.
Bloomberg keyboards are good but at least with this one traders can't say they accidentally hit the wrong button. Doh!
Dude, there's totally a panic button - Sell!
They just painted it green by mistake.
Is it just me, but this thing has a certain retro feeling about it? sort of Early 90's
Yeah, it's just missing a ginormous roll of paper, and +,-,/,*, =.
Brilliant.
Now all those bankers around the world can bring every single country's economy down sooner than we thought.
just as i'm about to lament the overuse of media darling "average american" (size, income, weight, shape, height, intelligence?)...you go and prove just how average americans can be...
bankers don't trade...traders do.
Traders don't bank...traders do.
I mean, bankers don't bank...oh, forget it.
@ picturemerollins
actually, bankers, traders and insurers can mix transactions more than their names let on, thanks to the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. You should be careful with the criticism, especially when you're wrong.
Shouldn't the red SELL button be half the size of the keyboard? Or are they not current aware of the current economic atmosphere?
Why isn't this the one they wrap in leather?
'casue leather + sweat/tears/blood doesn't mix very well.
That thing is HUGE.
I guess this response is mandatory.
That's what she said!
It wouldn't be "teh internet" without a response like that.
I get that a lot.
It's...excellent...
Apparently I'm not the only one that read that post with Mr. Burns's voice in my head.
Excellent.
Smithers. . . release the hounds!
I thought it was more the government mandating the banks to give loans to people who can't pay them back.
You'll release the dogs? Or the bees? Or the dogs with bees in their mouths so when they bark they shoot bees at you?
I found the remark about "destroying lives of average Americans" quite offensive actually. First of all, this gadget _is_ for average Americans. And average Americans did themselves in through a combination of the lowest savings rate in the world, incessant desire for more credit, and voting in the previous administration. I am not absolving a few greedy bastards here on Wall St of their part in it, but generalizations and ignorance like this (the aforementioned bastards were _not_ traders) on part of the editors are a serious turn-off.
wah
Are you some millionaire upset about your impending tax hike?
Great, just what we need, another tool to encourage day trading.
It never fails to amaze and sadden me to see how many people continuly fail to recognize that the cause of the current economic problems is not the failure of the free market, but is caused by the lack of a free market. Were it not for the market manipulations, or attempts to do so by the government, we would not have these problems now, or they would be significantly less onerous. But no one wants to hear that truth, no one wants to believe that government can only prevent economic crashes by leaving the market to its own devices. It is sad really, that there are so many uninformed people who believe the government should "do something" when it is best it do nothing.
So, give the handouts back to the taxpayer then?
How about some simple deregulation? You know, back to a limited government of enumerated powers? Anyone ever hear of something like that before?
The person who put this picture should get the day off "quating 'anny' the movie is just O_O"
YAY DADDY WARBUCKS
I thought the Logitech G13 was made for this kinda stuff?
lol
They missed an S from the 'Back Tab' button...
When pressed, do the red buttons honk, and the green buttons squeak?
TraderTools makes awful buggy trading software. I shudder to think what kind of awful buggy hardware they'd make. They used to be called PFS (Phoenix Financial Systems) but we lovingly called them Piece of F***ing S**t.
Gordon Gekko probably already has five
http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Film/Pix/pictures/2007/05/08/wallstreet460.jpg
That looks like something from 1989.
Hmmmm... They must have removed the "Short" button from this thing for the sake of bank stocks.
The short button would be the same as the "Sell" button, if you wanted to have a "short" button you would need a "Open-Long" "Open-Short" buttons and probably have a "Close" for ease of use.
This would be the reason (despite the economic climate) that the bid/ask buttons would have be the same size.
I don't understand why there is Bid/Offer as well as Buy/Sell, unless its connected to a market maker for quotation purposes?
What does "aggregating liquidity" mean?
I love the interaction design of this one. The "Menu" button is right between "Esc" and "Cancel", no way you could accidentally press the wrong key there, eh? (And what's the difference between "Esc" and "Cancel" anyway?)