The stock market processes trillions of calculations per second through a hybrid network of human minds and machines. From ancient trade to modern algorithms, discover how humanity built a computational system that transforms raw information into the most powerful signal on Earth: the market price.
Follow the journey from simple bartering to electronic trading. This is part 1 in a new series on economics!
00:00 - Opening
00:42 - How Market Prices Emerge
02:20 - Coffee Houses & The First Stock Market
03:15 - When Newton Lost His Fortune
05:10 - Inside the Trading Pit
06:20 - The Electronic Revolution
07:15 - Markets as Information Pools
08:30 - Hidden Information & Price Signals
09:45 - Predicting the Future