• DominusOfMegadeus
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    1205 months ago

    It’s almost as if the made up nonsense of the stock market isn’t propped up by anything real.

    • @[email protected]
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      Boomers complain about youngsters wasting all their time playing pointless video games or fucking around on their phone and then turn around and do all this fake nonsense. At least video games are fun.

      • @MrMcGasion
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        35 months ago

        And if my actions in a game cause chaos, it’s much more limited to a silly little game world, rather than ruining innocent lives IRL.

  • @9tr6gyp3
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    It seems all these glitches happen when a particular stock is halted. Whats the pattern here?

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      The pattern is they’re making shit up.

      Also, speaking from professional IT experience, there is no such thing as a glitch. (There always are things that occur and to be analysed and fixed, but the more critical the data is or the transactions are, the more robust things are built/done.)

        • Iapar
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          Thought a glitch is when a graphical interface bugs with artifacts and such.

        • @disguy_ovahea
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          Like “hacking.” The vast majority of breaches are accomplished by password acquisition or social engineering. Why try to break 128-bit AES encryption when I can see your dog’s name on every instagram post? The user is most commonly the weakest point in security.

        • @Strider
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          Especially by these “laymen”, which in fnancials absolutely know what they are doing.

        • @Strider
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          Of course they do.

          By bugs (self or dependency), negligence, wrong setup or architecture, for example.

  • @Tronn4
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    225 months ago

    Sell me all the frozen orange juice futures yall got!

    • @Tyfud
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      105 months ago

      Ironically, this would net them huge profit right now with the global shortage of orange juice happening.

        • Flying SquidOP
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          If only we could see more of what happened to them in Coming to America happen to other traders…

          • @SynAcker
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            Yeah, but they end up getting a bailout from a rich unknown benefactor.

  • edric
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    185 months ago

    Maybe they’re scrambling to do something with GME because of DFV’s post yesterday. lol

    • @[email protected]
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      85 months ago

      I really like the idea of random people causing chaos in the stock market. Fuggit I’ve got nothing to lose.

  • Waldowal
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    165 months ago

    That glitch that discounts stock prices by a percentage?! What? Does that block of the code normally only discount a stock by a percentage under different circumstances?

  • @maniii
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    135 months ago

    I read somewhere that Berkshire Hathaway HFT algorithm was to blame for the “glitch”.

    • Flying SquidOP
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      HFT should be banned. If we’re going to keep up this illusion of a stock market, at least make humans do it.

  • granolabar
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    75 months ago

    Wrong people lost money, it ain’t no thing tho, they undid them trades today…

    Clown fucking markets