We added extraordinary investment products that could expand our capital base to billions. They included: 1. State-of-the-art convertible, warrant, and option computerized analytic models and trading systems. With this we had already become the biggest player in the Japanese warrant market. 2. Statistical arbitrage, which was a computerized analytic model and trading system for common stocks using a real-time feed of the ticker into our $2 million computer center, where we generated automated electronic orders and sent them to the floor. From one eight-by-eight cubicle we traded between one
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