{"id":3385,"date":"2026-06-19T09:33:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T13:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/?p=3385"},"modified":"2026-06-23T07:23:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T11:23:19","slug":"gambling-on-ai-in-stock-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/2026\/06\/19\/gambling-on-ai-in-stock-markets\/","title":{"rendered":"Gambling on AI in stock markets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trading AI stocks is starting to look indistinguishable from online gambling. Like sports betting and prediction markets, it has the necessary ingredients:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Intermittent Reinforcement:<\/em> The unpredictable dopamine hit of daily price swings.<\/li>\n<li><em>Social Reinforcement:<\/em> High-pressure FOMO when &#8220;everyone is doing something.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><em>Gamification:<\/em> Onboarding high schoolers to apps with $14 sign-up bonuses.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>[&#8230;] Na and her co-workers joke they should sell their underwear to buy more shares. \u201cEven friends who have never touched stocks are getting into it,\u201d Na said. \u201cEveryone\u2019s doing something.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Accelerating demand for AI-related goods has spurred investors\u2014in Taipei, taxi drivers trade stocks mid-ride\u2014and boosted salaries.<\/p>\n<p>More than 180,000 trading accounts for children 18 or younger were created in the first three months of the year at Toss Securities, a South Korean brokerage. The accounts require parent approval to open and allow children to trade on their own. A recent promotion offered to deposit $14 into new accounts opened by high-school students.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Let&#8217;s see how this one will end.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/world\/asia\/stock-market-ai-chips-taiwan-korea-01b7d385?st=nJu8ip\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WSJ (gift link)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trading AI stocks is starting to look indistinguishable from online gambling. Like sports betting and prediction markets, it has the necessary ingredients: Intermittent Reinforcement: The unpredictable dopamine hit of daily price swings. Social Reinforcement: High-pressure FOMO when &#8220;everyone is doing something.&#8221; Gamification: Onboarding high schoolers to apps with $14 sign-up bonuses. [&#8230;] Na and her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3385"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3406,"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3385\/revisions\/3406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}