{"id":1326,"date":"2011-05-20T11:26:25","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T09:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=1326"},"modified":"2011-05-20T11:26:25","modified_gmt":"2011-05-20T09:26:25","slug":"stock-trading-as-a-video-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2011\/05\/20\/stock-trading-as-a-video-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Stock Trading as a Video Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Atlantic writes about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2011\/05\/on-the-floor-laughing-traders-are-having-a-new-kind-of-fun\/238570\/\">the similarities between modern stock trading and video games<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/trader_6001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1327 alignnone\" title=\"trader_600[1]\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/trader_6001-450x104.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"104\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/trader_6001-450x104.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/trader_6001.jpg 639w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 85vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mind you, the game the traders play is nothing like Mario or Zelda or  Megaman. It&#8217;s not a shoot-em-up or racing game. What it is is more like <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/StarCraft\">Starcraft<\/a> or maybe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tradewarsrising.com\/\">TradeWars<\/a>:  an intense, cerebral, massively multiplayer real-time strategy game.  It&#8217;s a game grounded in information: prices, mostly, but also all kinds  of news and rumors and oblique signals, whether by way of balance sheets  or CNBC. It&#8217;s the kind of game that requires the player to immerse  himself in data, distill from it a sort of strategical gestalt, and  convert that high-level battle plan into a series of discrete maneuvers,  in this case trades on the open market.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Via Dylan McKenzie.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Atlantic writes about the similarities between modern stock trading and video games. Mind you, the game the traders play is nothing like Mario or Zelda or Megaman. It&#8217;s not a shoot-em-up or racing game. What it is is more like Starcraft or maybe TradeWars: an intense, cerebral, massively multiplayer real-time strategy game. It&#8217;s a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2011\/05\/20\/stock-trading-as-a-video-game\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Stock Trading as a Video Game&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}