Profit Prophets

 

Profit Prophets


No longer humans

in human transactions,

they’re

High Frequency Trading Programs

of algorithmic fashion.


They’re leading Markets

using Futures’ Options

they’ve bought and sold

before and since 

the year 

2000.


Created by Computer Programmers

with high degrees

 in Mathematics 

from MIT and Stanford,

they’re taking losses on

Puts and Calls,

on behalf of Efficient Markets.


Replacing humans who once yelled out

‘buy and sell orders’

as ‘Specialists’

surrounded by Computer Monitors

while standing on 

Trading Floor Platforms.


They’re paying the costs of doing business

as ‘Buyers and Sellers of Last Resort’

by making gains on a series of counter Options.


They’re using Micro-Interest Rates

nobody else has heard of,

to leverage

smaller and smaller 

and faster and faster 

- fractional transactions;

reducing Principle, Time, & Expected Return On Investment 

thus controlling 

‘current market swings’,

and Money’s Velocity.


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Reminder/Disclaimer: This is only a poem. It is for entertainment and amusement only. It is not investment advice, nor a declaration of complete and true knowledge of Stock Markets, Interest Rates, nor other Investment or Institutions.



Comments

  1. GusJune 16, 2022 at 9:44 PM

    This poem synthesizes the nearly a year of business courses (4.0 GPA) I took in college, together with having read books like "The Wall Street Jungle" by Richard Ney that describes the roll of 'Stock Market Specialists'.

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