Buying and selling stocks and shares, commodities, cryptocurrencies and foreign exchange.

Trading used to be an activity that was reserved for the rich, for people working in the world's

major financial capitals.

But technology is changing that.

I'm Grace Moon, a journalist in Seoul, and I'm fascinated by how the world of finance

is changing.

Online stock brokers, smartphone apps and social media are enabling a new generation of

traders to access markets that were previously a playground of the elite.

In this program for the BBC World Service, I'm exploring the new tech-led world of financial

trading and the tribulations that accompany these easily accessible markets and apps.

Trading.

The act of buying and selling of stocks and shares and companies, commodities like gold

or oil, worldwide currencies or cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, which is never far from the headlines.

It's a world that is now very accessible thanks to the development of trading technology.

I began to notice that people were really talking about these new forms of investment

apps, particularly in the last year.

I'm speaking with finance reporter Elizabeth Anderson.

I think what's training apps have done is actually broad investing and trading more to younger

people.

I mean, traditionally, it's the tends to be sort of the preserve of older people who tended

to invest and also men.

Mostly, it tends to be older men that invest in the stock market.

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