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A friend pointed out this video  in French to me. 

I've no idea why, except that there's a new dance craze sweeping the world.  The idea is to hold one leg off the floor whilst swinging your arms around. 

Not a bad idea. 

Apparently, it takes its inspiration from the old English song, the Hokey-Cokey, which goes:

You put your left leg in,
You put your left leg out,
In, out, in, out and shake it all about.
You do the hokey cokey and you turn around.
That's what's it's all about.

However, the true story is that the dance craze began in Wall Street dealing rooms, as traders realised they could do nothing to stop their losses and so they started doing this instead as it's far more constructive.

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Chris Skinner is best known as an independent commentator on the financial markets through his blog, TheFinanser.com, as author of the bestselling book Digital Bank, and Chair of the European networking forum the Financial Services Club. He has been voted one of the most influential people in banking by The Financial Brand (as well as one of the best blogs), a FinTech Titan (Next Bank), one of the Fintech Leaders you need to follow (City AM, Deluxe and Jax Finance), as well as one of the Top 40 most influential people in financial technology by the Wall Street Journal's Financial News. To learn more click here...

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