Gamification of the stock market – the situation when people perceive investment as a game – became a problem at the world level, the Director of the Department of Countering the unscrupulous practices of the Central Bank of Russia, Valery Lyakh, said, reports “Prime”.
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He noticed that many new investors came to the market, but in some cases people only “came to get some pleasure from the game.” The representative of the Central Bank believes that it is partly due to self-insulation: in the stock market, people were looking for a substitute for mass events to feel “in the crowd.” “Our task is still to enable people on the market to work, and gamefice is probably not what people should come to the market,” concluded.
According to the Central Bank, in the first quarter of the year, the number of Russians with a brokerage account increased by 29 percent, to 12.7 million. In April, in the regulator assumed that all economically active Russians could be released on the stock exchange.
Western stock exchanges, in turn, faced with the activity of the so-called “Retail Investors” army with Reddit. Users of this social network achieved the growth of shares of some companies and provoked losses of professional players.