Article: Lay Off the Day Traders, You Wretches and Snobs.(FinancialObserver)

Byline: Dave Kansas

What's this: We're still hung up on day traders?

As the bull market rolls on, the old-media aristocracy (most recently, The New York Times Magazine, on Nov. 21) continues to obsess over the solitary obsessions of the day traders, as though this straggling lot of wired, manic investors holds the key to understanding the new age of money. You would think that the day traders, alone at home with their mousepads and their cute little Schwab accounts, have pushed us to the edge of some kind of national disaster.

It's a class thing. Day traders are considered low-rent losers, delusional suckers. So they get blamed for a market that ...

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