the.com/stock market
a casino where the house edge is called capitalism and everyone pretends it's math.
means a public exchange where shares of companies get bought and sold, letting prices reveal what people collectively think those companies are worth.
from traces to 1602 amsterdam, where the dutch east india company issued the first tradable shares to fund risky voyages, birthing both the stock certificate and the world's first stock bubble a few decades later.
nyse founded1792, under a buttonwood tree, manhattan.
crash timingmost historic crashes happened in october, oddly.
average holding timeshares now held under a year, down from decades.
algorithms tradeover half of us volume is now machine-driven.