DID YOU KNOW?
The New York Stock Exchange wasn’t equipped with telephones until 1878. Before then, so-called “deer” or “runners” would dash from the Exchange to nearby brokerage offices to deliver stock quotes from the brokers on the floor. On the floor itself, from 1903 till the 1960s, brokers would send each other stock orders through a system of pneumatic tubes—history’s answer to high-speed trading.
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