Elias didn’t hesitate. He "fat-fingered" a buy order, putting his entire remaining balance into a single position.
For three minutes, the gold arrow stayed. The price climbed. He was up fifty dollars. Then a hundred. Two hundred. He felt a rush of heat—the "Massive Profit" was real. He began calculating: if he doubled this every day, he’d have a million by Christmas. Then the screen flickered.
Most traders knew better. Rar files from unverified forum users were the digital equivalent of eating a sandwich you found on the subway. But Elias wasn’t thinking about malware; he was thinking about the rent. He clicked.