A pointer for the latter reviewer: if freedom were a commodity, there would be a market for it, traders in it, and it would have a price.
"You don't talk to people about it, because they don't understand it," one trader told me.
The best thing a do-it-yourself trader can do is to look deeper into the market.
"I don't see it [Trader Joe's] as the neighborhood store that a lot of other people do," Hogan said.
It enriches traders, hedge fund operators and various middlemen, and it impoverishes investors by a like amount.
They can profit by refining it into heating oil and gasoline or by selling it outright, traders said.
If they have their headsets on, they even look like slumming-it commodity traders.
Is it the traders causing the devaluation or the sputtering economy that forces its currency to be devalued?
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They've belatedly started to do it with traders in the foreign exchange market-rigging scandal.
If it did, traders might shift their business elsewhere because of additional risk.
