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Day trading the euro in your pajamas
"We would stay up all night looking at currency charts because neither one of us could sleep," she said. Finkley is one of the roughly half a million investors in the U.S. who have switched from trading stocks to trading currencies in the past decade. Currency day trading was essentially a non-existent market less than 10 years ago. But retail investors now make up 8% of the daily volume in the $4 trillion forex market, according to the Aite Group, a financial consulting firm. It's a unique demographic too. Currency traders are increasingly younger - with two-thirds of them under the age of 50. A higher percentage ... (full story)
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