Create 2021-08-20-01-35-12.md
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title: Thoughts on Stories and Narrative
date: 2021-04-03-20-59-14
author: techenomics1
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A couple of hours ago I came across a post from a friend on social media claiming that they had made "$XX in 15 minutes!"" using HFX, or High Frequency Foreign Currency Exchange Trading.  This piqued a few parts of my brain:

1.  The econ part of my brain both for incentives and better understanding markets
2.  The comp sci part of my brain for trying to understand this programmatically (If you can do it programmatically you can make money right?)
3..  The investigative/research part of my brain that wanted to find out more.  

Pretty quickly I was able to figure out that the whole thing was pretty suspect, including the trading platform used, the company behind the trading platform, and the seeming structure/people involved.
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