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The Sound of Inevitability

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This article highlights the complex and often emotionally taxing nature of trading in financial markets, emphasizing how liquidity and market dynamics influence trader behavior and decision-making. It underscores the importance of understanding market mechanics for both industry professionals and informed consumers, revealing the often unseen psychological and strategic challenges faced by traders.

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Kris Abdelmessih is not only a gifted derivatives trader, with a 20+ year career at Susquehanna and Parallax, but he is also a gifted writer with an amazing ability to explain the business of trading AND the underlying concepts of trading. Today Kris is one of the most widely-read voices in the trading and derivatives space, writing under his Moontower brand.

The market is 12-15.

12 bid. 15 offer.

The broker sizes up the offer.

“How many you got there? How about you? And you?”

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