At the end of the day, the reason such a market hasn’t grown around programmers the way it has around financial instrument traders is because programmers are s

At the end of the day, the reason such a market hasn’t grown around programmers the way it has around financial instrument traders is because programmers are still in the “expense” column while traders are in the “income” column or at worst, the “cost of sales” column. Interestingly enough, many fintech companies tend to avoid this classification of their programmers. The closer programmers get to the incoming money spigot, the less they are treated as “expense” column line items.