What Makes Financial Markets Interesting

What makes finance interesting is that it is about human interaction. As such, wildly chaotic and inexcusably rich and varied. Unpredictable.

If you like people, you would like finance and markets.

What doesn´t make much sense to me is that certain individuals would be attracted to finance solely because of the econometrics and the theorems. And that they would spend all day experiencing no interaction with financial players or showing any interest as to what humans do in the markets.

Why be in finance if you are missing the only thing that truly makes it interesting and worth analyzing? Why feel the need to create a different theoretical universe when the real thing is so intriguing?.

A bit like following Formula 1 to see if the wheels obey the laws of physics rather than to see the drivers race and compete.

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