Tuesday, May 26, 2020

WHAT IS THE MARKET?

WHAT IS THE MARKET?

What is the reality behind market symbols, prices, numbers, and graphs?

When you check prices in your newspaper, watch quotes on your screen, or plot an indicator on your chart, what exactly are you looking at? What is the market that you want to analyze and trade?

Amateurs act as if the market is a giant happening, a ball game in which they can join the professionals and make money. Traders from a scientific or engineering background often treat the market as a physical event. They apply to it the principles of signal processing, noise reduction, and similar ideas. By contrast, all professional traders know full well what the market is - it is a huge mass of people.

Every trader tries to take money away from other traders by outguessing them on the probable direction of the market. The members of the market crowd live on different continents. They are united by modem telecommunications in the pursuit of profit at each other's expense. 
                       

          "The market is a huge crowd of people. Each member of the crowd tries to take money away from other members by outsmarting them. The market is a uniquely harsh environment because everyone is against you, and you are against everyone."

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