What do traders do? They make investments on behalf of their employers, the banks, and the banks' customers. They watch screens all day, looking for fluctuations in prices, and then try to buy things when they are cheap and sell them when they are expensive. So what they are really trading in is opinions. They are like bookies once removed; they make bets on how other people will bet. Traders, in other words, are pure …showed first 75 words of 1146 total…

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