2008 Société Générale trading loss the bank's total market capitalization. Bank officials claim that Kerviel tried to conceal the activity by creating losing trades intentionally so as to offset his early gains. According to the BBC, Kerviel generated €1.4 billion in hidden profits by the end of 2007. His employers say they uncovered unauthorized trading traced to Kerviel on January 19, 2008. The bank then closed out these positions over three days of trading beginning January 21, 2008, a period in which the market was experiencing a large drop in equity indices, and losses attributed are estimated at €4.9 billion. The bank claimed Kerviel "had
Galactic Trader Galactic Trader Galactic Trader is a multiplayer, text-based, space trading video game for the OpenVMS platform. "Galactic Trader" was created in the early 1980s by Stephan Meier. Meier released five major versions, with the final release being 5.33 on February 6, 1992. "Galactic Trader" is a space-based commodities trading game which shares many ideas with the personal computer game "Elite", such as the hostile Thargoid race, player ranks, and the names and descriptions of some ships and equipment. In the most commonly encountered version, 4.55, the player begins as a trader with 200,150 credits, enough to buy a basic trading