For years, Japan's stock market has been dominated by day traders and foreign institutional investors.
In fact, there were many people who were quitting their jobs to be day traders.
But look at all the day traders yammering about their Apple options positions on StockTwits.
"The past year has been worse for long-term investors than for day traders, " he says.
This applies to everyone from professional investors and day traders to the long-term buy and hold individual.
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The setback was also seen as an opportunity for some of the growing band of day traders.
Warning: Leveraged and inverse ETFs, like this one, are designed for day traders because they reprice daily.
For now, the strength in gold could be short-lived and offer day traders a shot at shorting the market.
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The three ex-day traders, all from the now dissolved AB Watley Group Inc.
For most day traders, conventional market valuations derived from future profits are for idiots who just don't get it.
It would seem that auction buyers, unlike day traders, don't conduct the majority of their business on company time.
Even people who might consider themselves stock market junkies and avid day traders may not have heard of this firm.
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Old people are part of the action everywhere--at magazine photo shoots and as Hang Seng day traders or venture capital angels.
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Day traders are as likely now to be exchange-floor veterans, career-switching professionals or Ivy Leaguers cutting their teeth on Wall Street.
ETFs are even more seductive for day traders when those funds are commission free, because the traders can now buy and sell with impunity.
For now a short-term range mentality may develop, with day traders selling the top of the range and buying the bottom of the range.
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Lisa Johnson worked as a Schwab phone rep handling day traders until two years ago (and has filed a wrongful termination suit against the firm).
But studies of horse race gamblers and day traders have shown that when people are losing money, they tend to embrace risk instead of avoiding it.
Except for short-term day traders, it could be wise to sit back and let the market shake out a bit more before jumping back into the fray.
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They involved current or former employees of three prominent Wall Street banks--UBS, Morgan Stanley and Bear Stearns--three hedge funds, two broker-dealers and a couple of day traders.
Now known as Bank of America Merrill Lynch, it has since been fined for letting day traders and its own proprietary trading desk front-run clients.
We have seen healthy digestion followed by some muted momentum to the upside, which has been a bit frustrating for day traders but very constructive for swing traders.
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This is idle street chatter slanted towards amateur day traders.
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Today ten thousand day traders will pile into Herbalife (NYSE: HLF) because Carl Icahn, celebrated champion of Netflix (Nasdaq: NFLX), bought a lot of Herbalife shares and declared them cheap.
The action in Tesla is the latest illustration of the power of short-term traders known as "day traders, " even though some hold positions for days or even weeks before moving on.
The main reason why margin requirements make little difference to share prices is that most prices are set by institutional investors, and not, as popular myth suggests, by crazy day traders.
Thus armed, day traders are adding a high-tech twist to the well-worn momentum game that exchange-floor traders have played for decades: Buy when markets are rising and sell when they turn south.
This puts our technical outlook in an odd position this week as it seems a large portion of the day traders surrounding the Chicago Mercantile Exchange has yet to return to business as usual.
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