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Thanks to thought-powered trading technology, traders can open and close positions with their minds, sense the markets moving, and communicate with each other brain-to-brain.

Pocket-sized quantum computers power predictive AI, which analyses big data sets in search of the latest trends and suggests ways for traders to capitalise on potential price movements.

Brain-machine interfaces are used to control – and even eliminate – negative emotions, enabling traders to make better decisions and manage risk.

With exchanges and fiat currencies consigned to the history books, traders can use cryptocurrencies to speculate on a much wider range of markets via blockchain networks.

Specialised trading environments offer fun, exciting and sometimes lower-risk ways to access the financial markets, and enable traders to compete with others directly under pre-defined rules.

Trading algorithms have become so advanced that they can highlight opportunities, suggest strategies, and adapt to changing market conditions – maximising the potential for profit.

Artificially intelligent assistants scan financial data to produce ‘smart reports’, which update in real time and alert traders to any information that could affect the value of their portfolios.

Traders can launch holographic trading floors from mobile devices, controlling the virtual screens as if they were real and managing positions with haptic feedback.

Artificially intelligent assistants can ‘talk’ with traders, suggest strategies, and open and close positions rapidly on their behalf, making human brokers redundant.

Platforms can suggest hedging strategies or adjust stops and limits to reduce a trader’s total market exposure, while taking their emotions and preferred risk-to-reward ratio into account.