Do It Yourself Isn T Dead Yet
It seems like an odd career choice during the worst market in a half century–akin to setting up a Popsicle stand during last week’s cold spell. But though they’ve dropped from the headlines, a small band of rapid-fire do-it-yourself traders is surviving–and some even claim to be thriving. Their lives have changed a bit since those halcyon days when online brokerages created characters like Stuart (“Let’s light this candle”) and the newly rich tow-truck driver with the island hideaway (“Technically, it’s a country”) to advertise the easy pickings of trading in a market where every stock went up....