Monday, March 29, 2010
Day Traders 2.0: Wired, Angry and Loving It
Remember the day traders?
They were hard to miss during the tech-stock mania a decade ago, when the Nasdaq seemed like a casino built by morons and a chimp with darts could pick winners, The New York Times’s David Segal reports from Encinitas, Calif. You would hear about these guys — nearly all of them were guys — and wonder: Could anyone make a living this way? And if the answer was yes, why were the rest of us suckers still holding down regular jobs?
DealBook: Day Traders 2.0: Wired, Angry and Loving It
They were hard to miss during the tech-stock mania a decade ago, when the Nasdaq seemed like a casino built by morons and a chimp with darts could pick winners, The New York Times’s David Segal reports from Encinitas, Calif. You would hear about these guys — nearly all of them were guys — and wonder: Could anyone make a living this way? And if the answer was yes, why were the rest of us suckers still holding down regular jobs?
DealBook: Day Traders 2.0: Wired, Angry and Loving It