Sooo, the major players on this thing all have supercomputer deep thought thingie_magics running their systems of trading on this thing. But there is a rule of know your enemy, so their counter intel supercomputer deep thought thingie_magics are just as good. So, now they know every dissentient move and compensate for it. So, you either have total gridlocked market or the major players all have to work as a koh-hawrtious homogeneous entity to get movement outa this market and that is why they allocate the winners and losers 2 alternate years (or series of runs across the face of the sun , strapped onto the face of this planet) using impressively rousing words like "value" , circa 1928 . So koos2 , trading ona 56k modem from deep rural south-western free state, has to figure outa way to beat ((1*xxy)*abc) oppugnant, let's just call it dudeA, at its own game... koos2 only has 2 weapons, time and a ingrained stubborn, obstinate willingness to work at a thing till it is done, Also koos2 abhors assumed authority and when he sees buy stock GHJKL ("this is your god speaking"), he works atit.