By November 2007, Mr. Taylor was an equity-derivatives trader on Goldman's Capital Structure Franchise Trading desk and had lost a "significant portion" of the trading profits he had accumulated earlier that year, according to criminal charging documents filed by prosecutors Wednesday.
That said, this problem of causality in the area of neuroscience is endemic to a lot of papers that come across my desk that try to relate a particular brain structure to a type of behavior.
Matthew Lavicka, a managing director on Goldman's equities-trading desk and chairman of Sifma's trading and market structure committee, told the exchanges that he felt there was agreement among the majority of exchange customers: They couldn't safely be prepared for the NYSE contingency plan that involved routing orders away from the trading floor and to NYSE Arca in time for Monday morning.