Description |
1 online resource (1 volume) |
Contents |
Introduction: the ethnography of noise in electronic finance -- Noise in financial markets -- How does one become a trader? -- Taking on the market: competitions and spectacle in trading -- Rituals and illusions of the trading screen -- Talk in trading, talk for trading, talk of trading: group communication in electronic markets -- Trading strategies -- The lives of traders -- Conclusion: bourgeois freedoms |
Summary |
We often think of finance as a glamorous world, a place where investment bankers amass huge profits in gleaming downtown skyscrapers. There's another side to finance, though - the millions of amateurs who log on to their computers every day to make their own trades. The shocking truth, however, is that less than 2% of these amateur traders make a consistent profit. Why, then, do they do it? In 'Noise', Alex Preda explores the world of the people who trade even when by all measures they would be better off not trading |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed February 16, 2017) |
Subject |
Online stockbrokers.
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Electronic trading of securities.
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Electronic trading of securities -- Psychological aspects
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Investments -- Decision making
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Finance.
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Electronic trading of securities
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Electronic trading of securities -- Psychological aspects
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Investments -- Decision making
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Online stockbrokers
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780226427515 |
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022642751X |
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