Jane Street Gets Into Mobile Gaming (ft.com) 11
Financial Times Alphaville: Look, we know we write a lot about Jane Street, but it's a fascinating place, and people seem interested in it. So it was hard to resist writing about the trading shop entering the mobile phone game space (kinda). Back in 2013 Jane Street developed a card game called "Figgie," which it made to simulate open outcry trading, teach trading nous, and generally burnish its reputation for quirkiness -- de rigueur in the industry.
All you need are 40 cards from a normal deck, and the rules have been public for a while. During Covid, Jane Street made a virtual version for remote interns. Now it's a mobile game that's publicly available on the official Apple and Google app stores.
All you need are 40 cards from a normal deck, and the rules have been public for a while. During Covid, Jane Street made a virtual version for remote interns. Now it's a mobile game that's publicly available on the official Apple and Google app stores.
Who? (Score:5, Informative)
For those of you (like me) who have no idea who Jane Street is, here you go [wikipedia.org].
It's a trading firm that "trades a broad range of asset classes on more than 200 venues in 45 countries".
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For those of you (like me) who have no idea who Jane Street is, here you go [wikipedia.org]
Thank you - I was wondering too...
OCAML (Score:3)
The only reason I know of them is that they have authored huge number of OCAML packages. Apparently their trading platform is written in the language.
https://github.com/janestreet [github.com]
Re:Who? (Score:4, Insightful)
Re: (Score:3)
They're also known for sponsoring mathematicians and their channels, notably Numberphile and Matt Parker's StandUpMaths channel.
They are recruiting mathematicians, now it makes complete sense why they have summer camps and such.
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Outcry trading game? (Score:1)
They reinvented PIT?