“It does what 'futurists' do when they do their job right." - Forbes Pattern Recognition by William Gibson intersects with Freakonomics.” -P.R., Cedar Rapids, IA
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MARKET WHIPPED: And Not By Choice We’ve listened to the economists, Wall Street, politicians, and traders telling us what is moving the market, but it never makes sense. Believe me, it doesn’t to them either. After years of following the evolution of all the systems that comprise the investing environment—technology, regulations, behaviors—I finally came to the conclusion that this New Market has turned into a massive multiplayer online role-playing game—a MMORPG. A game with new forces that have permanently shifted the trading environment from an economic based system to a behavioral system. Market Whipped convincingly compares the new market with on-line war games, investing that has evolved beyond gambling and into a battle between power players that take place in a virtual realm. An engineered game that immerses traders in the same way as on-line war games. Take a biting journey into the Dark Side where new game masters, power players, and supercomputers are calculating your every move. You’ll learn how financial engineers are using your trading behaviors against you, where computers search and kill traders, and how governments are playing both sides of the fence. This book is not about stock picking. It is an awakening to the fact that new forces have shifted the trading environment from an economic system to a behavioral system. Yet, despite their fears, the Ledge Jumper, the addicted Day Trader, and the delusional will keep coming back for more. After reading Market Whipped, your view of what is driving markets will be changed forever. If you ask where all these forces are leading, then read what the future of investing could mean to you as an individual trader and why the New Market will not go back. About the Author J.E. Foltz is an economic futurist and founder of Alsek Research, a business intelligence firm and publisher of Edgy Economics Updates, a newsletter for business and investing that specializes in deciphering the noise to find the underlying market drivers. Foltz has tracked signals of the changing global socio-economic landscape for more than 25 years while serving as senior analyst and director of business integration for multinational and foreign companies in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. Foltz methodically maps social, technological, and economic forces that mark the evolutionary pathways for business strategies.
Read excerpts now. Meet a delusional retail trader, one you probably recognize. Face the virtual computerized system in the Dark Side. There's many more characters—human and non-human—you need to read about.
