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Tyler Durden – iAddiction: “I Was A F**king Mess Yesterday”

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An excellent article from Zero Hedge. Now we have Instagram type trading apps (Robinhood) to trigger instant highs and lows.Social media and gambling have the same addictive psychological mechanism: variable rewards — when you keep performing an action in hopes of getting a possible but unlikely reward. This is the type of behavior that’s the “most addictive and hardest to stop.” Zero Hedge  Tyler Durden - iAddiction: "I Was A F**king Mess Yesterday"

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An excellent article from Zero Hedge. Now we have Instagram type trading apps (Robinhood) to trigger instant highs and lows.

Social media and gambling have the same addictive psychological mechanism: variable rewards — when you keep performing an action in hopes of getting a possible but unlikely reward. This is the type of behavior that’s the “most addictive and hardest to stop.”

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Mike Norman is an economist and veteran trader whose career has spanned over 30 years on Wall Street. He is a former member and trader on the CME, NYMEX, COMEX and NYFE and he managed money for one of the largest hedge funds and ran a prop trading desk for Credit Suisse.

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