Some People Scare Me

I make more playin' online poker in a week than I do working at my job for a month.

--Random cell phone talker in the table behind me at lunch

Our broker will let us lever up 4 to 1. Right now we're about 80% invested in shorts. We've also been doing a lot of commodities and futures. We don't like pure equity because there's not enough volatility in it. We can't get in and out with a profit in less than a month or so.

--Day Trader I met at a party

It seems that I've been hearing a lot of scary things come out of peoples' mouths these days.

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