Fast profits lure new breed of traders
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Across the room, McQuarters is in Lucent - and winning. "I love this. This is it - for life," he says, vowing never to go back to programming. Next to him, Tammi Bright buys 2,000 shares of Hewlett-Packard at $705/8. Within minutes, the "bid" ticks up to $71, she enters a sell order, and quickly gets confirmation. She makes 37.5 cents a share on 2,000 shares, which works out to $750. She makes a string of similar trades and soon is up about $3,000. The week before, she says she notched an $11,000 day and an $8,000 day. Unsurprisingly, she plans to give up her blackjack dealer job.
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