Reel
Things that are easier to show than to say
One clip a screen. None of this is my own footage yet, and every frame says where it came from, which is the same rule the numbers on this site follow.
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Every car here is taking a route it chose from a few, and the pattern that comes out is nobody's plan. That is most of what an order book is.
Mixkit, free licence · source
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Latency is the only number here that a picture can carry: the gap between one of these and the next.
Mixkit, free licence · source
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Somewhere in one of these a published number is being computed, and this site is an argument that you should be able to rebuild it from outside.
Mixkit, free licence · source
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The one bright frame on the site, and it is here on purpose: a portfolio about market microstructure that has never once looked out of the window is a portfolio about a screen.
Mixkit, free licence · source
Licences and the reason each clip was chosen are recorded inpublic/media/SOURCE.md, including the four that were rejected: a wall of third-party logos, a company sign on a building, legible signage in a night time lapse, and a pair of hands typing on a laptop, which breaks no rule and is the most skippable image on the internet.