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To: Terry Whitman who wrote (78918)12/9/1999 12:31:00 PM
From: NickSE  Read Replies (2) of 86076
 
Day Trading 'Sucka' a Hit With Media
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...Yes, yes, it's hard conceding you're a sucker with a zillion people watching. It's harder still when the audience includes your mother and two brothers who told you not to day-trade the money your grandfather left you. And then they told you not to talk about it ? to stay away from the mobs of reporters documenting this strange corner of Wall Street.

But there you are on "60 Minutes II," telling the world how you frittered away your $200,000 inheritance in one of these new shops that let amateurs trade stocks all day.

"Yes," Skiersch repeats to Rather, with a whisper of a midwestern accent. "I was a sucker."...
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