I worked in Finance in 2016 & 2017, on the team that managed the trade & position store for the entire company. We kept a few big graphs up of the important sta

I worked in Finance in 2016 & 2017, on the team that managed the trade & position store for the entire company. We kept a few big graphs up of the important statistics of the day, including total daily trades. Nobody thought much about Brexit because the traders knew that they wouldn’t be so foolish as to vote for it. The pandemonium once everyone realized the vote came back yes was unbelievable. We blew through the record number of trades by a factor of 2x. I thought I’d never see anything like it ... until November 2016.