A rat could be managing your investments - and doing a better job of it than a human trader What’s the difference between traders and rats? Make all the jokes you like, but it turns out the furry four-leggers make better investment decisions than humans do. "They outperform most human traders and represent a much more economic solution for your trading desk," the website RatTraders.com explains. The rats are trained to respond to “ticker tracks”, which are real time price data that have been converted into piano sounds. The pitch of the note rises and falls in accordance with the price movement. You can hear what ... (full story)