Just as Byron had said.
Not only were the shills and those supposedly successful fellow investors who had made a fortune fakes, but even the trading platform itself was a sham.
It was nothing more than a simulation system designed by Byron according to stock market rules, where all operational processes theoretically mirrored those of a real stock market.
In fact, for the first three hundred of the four hundred years since stocks were created, speculative activities were largely uniform. Market manipulation and insider trading were rampant.
Since the first stock market disaster—the Tulip Bubble—it seems humanity's only lesson from history was that it never learned any lesson from history.
True market standardization had only existed for a few years by Byron's era.
Everyone was more or less on the same footing; fundamentally, it wasn't much different from his "simulated trading platform."
