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We Require More Vespene Gas. And Stocks.
by Chris Remo, Apr 24, 2006 1:36pm PDTHere's a weirder one. The Korea Times reports that stock brokerage firm Goodmorning Shinhan Securities is seeking out skilled professional players of Blizzard's classic RTS title StarCraft to potentially train and employ as day-trading stock brokers.
The StarCraft fever spawned professional players for the tourneys as well as training groups vying to join them, who have well-honed skills like quick reflexes and finger dexterity. Such skills are a must for day traders, the active stock dealers who typically hold positions for a very short time and make several aggressive online transactions a minute. However, Goodmorning Shinhan is agonizing over the recruitment of the skillful StarCraft players since day traders must be specialists in equity investment and fund management.So, it looks like there's a bit of a hitch: StarCraft players, shockingly enough, don't have inherent knowledge of equity investment and fundmanagement. Still, if you're a devoit realtime strategy player and are accustomed to monitoring and actively managing many different simultaneous situations, you may very well have the fundamental mental faculties necessary in high-pressure financial activities such as day trading. Video games: they teach you to steal cars and trade stocks.
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Though Chris mentioned that they are looking at these people to “potentially train and employ†in his first paragraph, the quotes he chose seem to give the impression that they would be hired just because of their Starcraft skills.
Obviously that is not the case; and almost as silly hiring doctors on the basis that people are really good at the Milton Bradley board game “Operationâ€Â.
The first two paragraphs:
“Earlier this month, we interviewed a pair of professional gamers to check whether they can be trained as day traders,’’ a Goodmorning Shinhan spokesman said.
"The mastery of professional gamer’s hands and their familiarity with the Internet environment can be good qualities to become day traders,’’ he added. He declined to disclose the players’ identity, though.
Make a lot more sense.
Clearly they are just testing the waters to see if professional Starcraft players can adapt those inherent skills / or be any more proficient with them -- as an educated and trained day trader.
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Remo saving grades since 06
That made me laugh for some reason - I should probably not read these out loud
I'm good at tetris, can I be a CEO?
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