• Kairos@lemmy.today
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    3 days ago

    This is outright lying with statistics. The majority of traders on U.S. stock exchanges (95%+) are individual traders. They just use a clearing house that does the trading for them because it’s cheaper and faster.

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      2 days ago

      The majority of traders on U.S. stock exchanges (95%+) are individual traders.

      Absolutely need a source for that one. Sounds wrong on both volume of $ and volume of trades.

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        2 days ago

        That’s because “[number of] traders” and “volume” are two different numbers. Volume wise it’s probably the opposite.

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          Yes but using number of traders is useless to look at which is why I used total volume or amount of trades both of which sounds wrong from Ops claim.

          Number traders does sound accurate but it’s a worthless metric that doesn’t tell us anything because they aren’t the ones doing the trading.

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      3 days ago

      Yeah, but I don’t think, that was the point of the meme. It was just about making fun of tankies.

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        3 days ago

        i thought it was making fun of US capitalism where socialism is used as an invective.

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          Nah it wasn’t it was making fun of the concept of “Marxist Leninist Stock Exchanges” implying that its just “state capitalism”.

          Btw, happy cake day.

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          This is why I don’t fuck with that. That and the memestock nonsense. I could tell you a high volume stock strike on Fridays by calculating how much corruption it took for market makers to not lose their ass. It’s all rigged and disgusting. They’ll drop a nuke on someone if their son in law can make a million.