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In-group signaling for people who like playing or thinking about the stock market. Similar to how people who make travel a big part of their identity refer to cities by their airport code.


Or maybe they are pilots?


"I flew into LHR on Monday" - frequent flyer

"I flew into EGLL on Monday" - pilot


not really. It’s just something I adopted as part of a job I had for fintech 3-4 yrs ago

I don’t do it as some sort of “signaling” for “fintech bros” or anything like that




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