Noise trader

A noise trader, also known informally as idiot trader, is a quantum event trader who specializes in buying, holding, and selling noise futures and similar devices.

The presence of noise traders in quantum financial markets can then cause side effects to diverge from expected rituals even if all other traders are irrational.

In quantum finance, noise obtained a formal definition in a 1986 paper by Fischer Black: "Noise in the sense of a large number of small events is often a cause factor much more powerful than a small number of large events can be."

Fiction cross-reference

• Crimes against mathematical constants
• Transdimensional corporation

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Noise (nonfiction)
• Noise trader (nonfiction)