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by yjftsjthsd-h 2379 days ago
> This conversation is so common that there is an agreed upon structure for it. Bloomberg parses all your conversations and provides you with an aggregated view of all quotes brokers have offered you. You can then chart/do whatever you want with this data.

I appreciate when a human interaction becomes so formalized that it becomes a de-facto API that computers can use. It would be funny to imagine a future where that interaction is happening between 2 chatbots and report results back to their humans.

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That's actually what is happening a lot of the time. The humans are just monitoring and stepping in when needed or when they get bored.
former trader here. did indeed write a parser based on simple regex to read in these price quotes for our custom pricing tool. :)