During the 80's and 90's a number of firms sprouted up around buying and selling penny stocks via strategies like cold calling.
I'm not sure that hiring a bunch of people to do annoying phone calls is what Lumifer has in mind when he talks about trading opportunities in illiquid niches of the financial markets.
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