Financial trading is a serious practice. In an increasingly unstable and weakening emerging market, it is seriously a risky practice. In all of its seriousness, my research takes the jokes traders and brokers (whom I call “financial players”) in Turkey make when they engage with Turkish financial markets as manifestations of how they comprehend and deal with 1) the precarity of Turkish financial markets in global finance and the prospect of a local financial crisis; and 2) their own precarity and self-censorship within the increasingly polarized political, social, and ideological atmosphere of Turkey, especially after the failed coup attempt in 2016.