Thousands of Chinese merchants and traders have streamed into Mandalay since the late 1980's.
There is now a steady stream of traders buying sacks of rice, sugar, wheat and spaghetti for resale in Venezuela.
Traders is available to stream now on Amazon.
In this single feed, there are links to blog posts more detailed than Bloomberg, opinions from expert traders, the equivalent of streaming news updates, all sortable, filterable, free and in real-time.
Proprietary trading was once a large part of many Wall Street banks' revenue stream, as star traders gambled big with their firms' money, netting huge profits when the bets paid off.
The traders endeavoured to ford a stream at the end of the day rather than start the next day with the crossing, to allow time to dry out overnight.
What Ranadivé's company, TIBCO, did was to consolidate those databases into one stream, so that the trader could collect all the data he wanted instantaneously.
The leading retail trader needed an app that can stream 8 billion stock quotes and a host of features such as watch lists and options strategies.
With bull market fans streaming in Janus' door, the traders there haven't had to liquidate positions to meet fund redemptions.
Third, the technologies that are in use in China's futures markets are still below the technology required by most HFT traders, who usually have high requirements for streaming data on equities and derivatives prices, and demand millisecond updates.
