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I am just assuming here, but I think you’re missing the point completely. Indicators alone don’t mean shit. GTS traders aren’t just staring at charts or pressing buttons because a line crosses another line. Their job is to provide liquidity and manage risk in real time. That means they are constantly monitoring the market, watching order flow, book depth, price movements, and news. They are active, but not in the sense of making random trades. Most of their trading is driven by automated systems, but a human trader is there to oversee, intervene, and make judgment calls when the market does something unexpected, like a sudden volatility spike, an IPO, or a big order hitting the book.
They adjust quotes, spreads, and inventory on the fly. They decide when to let the automated system handle it and when they need to step in to manage risk or provide liquidity manually. The screens they use are packed with proprietary tools, predictive models, and overlays that show them where the market pressure is, how orders are stacking up, and how they can safely take or provide risk.
So even if you had the same indicators, it wouldn’t matter. You’d still have no idea how to actually observe the market, manage inventory, or interact with these systems in real time. That’s the job, monitoring, analyzing, adjusting, and occasionally acting, all in the context of keeping markets liquid and managing firm risk.