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was: Re: Floor trader Study

"Neal T. Weintraub" <thevindicator@xxxxxxxxxxx> wonders:
>As a software user, many of you can trade any market you want. I am seeing
>that many of the users are Futures traders.
>Why with so many products out there and obvious gimme trades in the stock
>and mutual funds I wonder why the public loves a game where they have a
>better chance of reaching Bill Clinton this afternoon than making it
>trading commodities.

I asked Alex Elder, after he'd described his early days as a trader,
why he'd traded futures rather than stocks.  His reply was, "I didn't
have enough money to make a living trading stocks."

Jim