Made in Germany | What makes brokers tick?

1,225 views · Published 10 February 2008 · 3:59 · Indexed 22 September 2026

Channel: DW News · 2008 · Entertainment

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What does it mean for dealers in stocks, bonds, and currencies when the stock market takes a roller-coaster ride and huge fortunes dissolve into thin air? Are good traders emotionally disturbed people, as an American study claims to show?

And when a person buys and sells for millions every day, how does he think? Reporter Andreas Be Hewel visited a former Deutsche Bank currency trader. He tells us how stressful the job is and how disciplined and fast-reflexed a currency dealer must be. Success here is unpredictable, and psychologists speak of the ILLUSION of control. Our topic in cooperation with Handelsblatt.

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