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> Traders cannot make a profit if they don't manipulate the price.

Traders aren't the only reason prices move. Clearly a wide spread crop failure would also increase grain prices. You can still make money as a trader if you do a better job at predicting such events than others.



And everybody that dies of hunger be damned, right? As long as you make a buck... (I don't mean you specifically, I don't know much about you)




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