After thoroughly making a name for itself, the Fire Exchange no longer operated unconventionally.
Its opening hours and the time it distributed shopping guides were standardized to align with the top ten exchanges, shifting to exactly nine in the morning.
As winter approached, crowds still flocked to the market to trade, but genuine buyers and sellers remained incredibly scarce.
The vast majority of traders merely treated the goods like stock funds. They constantly repeated the cycle of buying low and selling high, dreaming of exploiting invisible price gaps that others couldn't see.
Unfortunately, this kind of operation only made Turner shake his head, even as he stood in the back room with his generally insensitive grasp of the market.
"Their approach is far too naive. It looks like they make money or at least break even every day, but in reality, these meager profits cannot possibly keep up with the depreciation rate of contribution points.
