Day Trading In Japan

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I just read this in a homework assignment and thought it might be of some interest to you guys. I certainly had no idea there were such opportunities:

Some think that day trading in the stock market ended with the bursting of the dot-com bubble. Not in Japan.
Homemaker Yuka Yamamoto got bored watching shows on television. After seeing an ad on TV, she took $2,000 in savings and started day trading stocks using her home computer. Within a year, she turned the initial $2,000 into a cool $1 million and became a celebrity in Japan. She’s a popular speaker and has contributed to several books on day-trading.
She’s not alone.


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