the inventory of one full shift, in the order it fell on him.
BAG 01
¢Trading fees
every buy and every sell leaves a few cents somewhere on the floor up there, and nobody with a real portfolio bends down for cents. i bend down for cents. that is the entire job description, written out in full.
BAG 02
✦Dead tokens
somebody launched a dog wearing a hat at three in the morning and had abandoned it by breakfast. the token still falls, it still weighs something on the way down, and it goes in the bag with everything else.
BAG 03
▼Panic sells
when the candle turns red the whole floor empties at once and a good half of it rains down on my head. i do not enjoy this part. i do collect this part, thoroughly, with both hands.
BAG 04
…Rounding dust
there is always a fraction left over that does not fit in anybody's wallet and just sits there being too small to care about. i care about it. i am built for exactly this size of money and no larger.
BAG 05
◷Orders that never filled
a man set a buy at a price the market laughed at out loud, then went to bed and stayed there. that order has been hanging above me for nine months. one day it drops, and i am still standing in the same spot.
BAG 06
☾The 4am candle
nothing good has ever been traded at four in the morning, which is precisely why so much of it comes off the edge. i do not sleep on a schedule. i sleep in short shifts between drops, standing up.
BAG 07
⇩Somebody's exit liquidity
a man sold his entire bag into a wall, and on that particular afternoon the wall was me. i did not apply to be the wall and nobody asked. the wall got paid, so no complaint has been filed.
BAG 08
$A whole coin, intact
once in a while something comes down that is not dust, not a fee and not a fragment — an actual full coin with the paint still on it. on those days i go home early. today is one of those days.
