There can be no doubt about the vast, if not monumental, effect that modern technology has brought to the futures broker industry. Processes that were once the purview of man-made machinations, are now fully automated by the gently humming, and beguilingly autonomous computer processors and omnipotent trading platforms. Calculations are being made, trades entered and exited at a speed that would make Doc Brown giddy. Yet for all of this precocious computing power, there are still some elements of our trade that we may, from time to time, ply by hand. Order tickets, and time stamps more specifically, remain one…