Playing the market

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Playing the market

Trading in high, uncalculated risk usually refers to actions of amateur investors.

Playing the Market

The practice of making investments with little, or improper, regard for their risks. Playing the market often refers to the transactions of amateur investors. See also: Naive diversification.

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On the other hand, alongside the rise of the exchanges has come the development of the trader or investor-style punter, who is more concerned with playing the market for the prices and not purely because they fancy a, b or c to win or lose.

`Many traders eke out small arbitrages for decent levels of income'

But that was two years ago, and ever since, Chris has been busy playing the market.

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The extent to which both government and investors had to be adept at playing the market returns us to the question of cui bono, or how to explain Florentine citizens' interest in investing their wealth in the Dowry Fund (as Molho put it more directly several years ago in "L'amministrazione del debito pubblico," I ceti dirigenti nella Toscana del Quattrocento, Florence, 1987, 201).