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Strategies & Market Trends : DAYTRADING Fundamentals -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TheKelster who wrote (2306)	8/2/1999 11:31:00 AM
From: JB2	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 18137

That's what I thought too, until I read this one, that quotes an anonymous "industry source" that says the average daytrader makes more than 300 trades per hour. I can't even imagine how much caffeine I would have to pump into my nervous system to comply with that average. That's 2 and a half roundtrips a minute, nonstop, from market open past market close. The writer is a walking poster boy for innumeracy: wsws.org I will give him credit for his last paragraph, as his is one of the few articles to give even a sidelong nod to Barton's statement "I have come to hate...this system of things..."