In the end, he says, his goal is to make the financial system work better and more safely. If the real market worked like FXTrade, costs would come down, liquidity would rise. “The world economy is like your body,” he says. “Your heart pumps six liters of blood a minute, and so if you weigh eighty kilos it would take about fifteen minutes to pump your body’s weight. By that analogy, the world foreign exchange market should be transacting $40 trillion every ten minutes. Today we do $1 trillion or so in twenty-four hours. My claim is the global economy is close to a heart attack.”
