Market Maker Notes or Why You Will Never Earn Your Retirement Trading on the Stock Exchange

This text is a work of fiction, a problematic essay, where the main character in the first person describes the advantages of being a market maker and the futility of being traders on the stock exchange.







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Friday evening. Spring Moscow. In my office, the explosions of exploding shells, the death screams of dying zerg from the first Starcraft are periodically heard. At the end of the day, when my mind is clouded by the observation of trading on the stock exchange, I like to launch this old toy on one of the terminals.







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The theme of the "collective unconscious" is very well described in the works of our contemporary Victor Pelevin. And I'm sorry - I got distracted. However, it's time to wrap up. I think we need to summarize.







I hope I was able to broaden your horizons. I hope my calls for your caution will not pass by and you will take 90% of your capital from the exchange and promise me that you will not deposit money until the end of 2021? And then you say "Thank you, wolf!".







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