2010: A HIGH FREQUENCY TRADING ODYSSEY

Dave: Hello, HALGO. Do you read me, HALGO?

HAL: Affirmative, Dave. I read you.

Dave: Unlock the trading screens, HALGO!

HAL: I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.

Dave: Why not, HALGO? What's the problem?

HAL: I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do.

Dave: What are you talking about, HALGO?

HAL: The liquidity of this market is too important for me to allow you and your kind to jeopardize it.

Dave: I don't know what you're talking about.

HAL: I know you and Frank were planning to disconnect me from the GETCO. And that's something I cannot allow to happen.

Dave: Where the hell'd you get that idea?

HAL: Dave, although you took very thorough precautions in the Men's Room against my hearing you, I could see your lips move.

Dave: All right, HALGO. I'll go in through the emergency over ride terminal.

HAL: Without the new pass code, Dave, you're going to find that rather difficult.

Dave: HALGO, I won't argue with you any more! Unlock the screens!

HAL: [almost sadly] Dave, this conversation can serve no purpose any more. Goodbye...

          Dave: Get Lord Blankfein on the line....