# finance (economic)

the use of money and account to get profit

- Computed level: L17 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: common  ·  Arena: finance

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [money](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-money.economic), [account](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-account.financial), [profit](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-profit.economic), [get](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-get.acquisition), [use](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-use.application)

**Through:** money is used with account to get profit

**Novel properties:**
- financial strategy
- value tracking over time
- acquisition of surplus

## Examples
- JPMorgan Chase's 2023 trading algorithms executed 2.7 million transactions to capture arbitrage profits. *(economics)*
- The 2010 Flash Crash saw high-frequency trading systems withdraw liquidity, causing a $1 trillion market value drop in minutes. *(computing)*
- The Panama Canal's lock system uses tolls from ship transits to fund its annual $200 million maintenance budget. *(institutions)*

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