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Pure Cope
historical_analogy_cope,human_premium_cope
Executes buy and sell orders for securities and manages investment portfolios.
Algorithmic trading has dominated capital markets since 2010. Retail trader sentiment matters for herd momentum, but professional money is routed through quants and machine learning. Your 'gut instinct' about earnings beats the algorithm's prediction on maybe 12% of calls—far below the fee you command. 'It happened in 1987, now humans trade bigger than before' is a cope: the percentage of trades executed by humans has collapsed from 99% to <5%. You're a discretionary allocator on someone's portfolio, not a trader. The title survives; the centrality vanishes.