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The Invisible Hand wants to make trading exciting, but also boring

The Invisible Hand wants to make trading exciting, but also boring

3 min read News
Working as a trader used to be a glamorous—if also morally dubious—job. Note the use of the past tense in that sentence: Wall Street (1987), with its yelling into phones and power-suits, power-lunches, and power-everything-else is a thing of the past. It’s not for nothing that the most exciting cult
The stock market’s roller coaster metaphor becomes literal thanks to VR

The stock market’s roller coaster metaphor becomes literal thanks to VR

2 min read News
The stock market, which is a representation of transactions and not a physical reality, is commonly described as a roller coaster. The reasons for this are understandable: that fun thing you ride at the amusement park sounds way cooler than “the aggregation of buyers and sellers,” even if that’s wha