How certain stock traders resemble certain insects

“Day traders tend to coordinate their behaviour in the same way that cicadas synchronise their chirping,” reports the Physics arXiv blog. The discovery is explained in detail in the study:  “Synchronicity, Instant Messaging And Performance Among Financial Traders,” Serguei Saavedra, Kathleen Hagerty and Brian Uzzi. arxiv.org/abs/1110.0381. The authors are atNorthwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA. They say: “racing to […]

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