As long as material abundance is not sufficient, the world needs things that are in short supply. The scarcer something is, the more valuable and expensive it becomes.
In the forex trading space, scalping is essentially exploiting platform vulnerabilities—leveraging differences in quote sources, server speeds, and internet latency, as well as price discrepancies across different platforms. It’s about getting in and out fast, using extremely high leverage and lightning speed to capture fleeting price differences.
As you can see, when arbitrage is deterministic, you can amplify leverage. In other words, investors pay a premium for certainty.
Managers hammer home the same point to all new salespeople:
Choosing the right target customers matters far more than just selling.
Otherwise, you're just burning through resources with no return on what you invest.
I won't name names.
The playbook is simple: get you to use their product for free, but they embed infringing plugins inside it (you can think of similar products), and then set up a dedicated company to pursue claims.
Rumor has it they're already making tens of millions in annual revenue.