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• Investing
• Elite trading firms start in a tiny European country
• The Netherlands invented modern finance
• In 1602, Dutch East India Company opened the first stock exchange
• Most countries were trading physical goods
• The Dutch were trading shares, futures, and options
• European Options Exchange opened in Amsterdam in 1978
• To trade derivatives in Europe, one had to be on the physical floor
• Firms stay in Amsterdam for more than history
• Dutch regulatory environment favors market making
• Dutch tax code favors aggressive trading
• Dutch firms use latency-sensitive algorithms
• Dutch firms provide liquidity on global exchanges
• Trading knowledge
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