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Re:Brokers Hand on Their Faces Site by josefresco on Friday October 10, 2008 @11:16AM (#328887)
I love how CNN and others run these pictures as if these "face palm" moments don't happen every single other day (even in good times)

FUD at it's best.

Re:Brokers Hand on Their Faces Site by axod on Friday October 10, 2008 @06:44PM (#329330)
Some of them just look like they're coughing to be honest, or bored out of their brains.
Re:Brokers Hand on Their Faces Site by decadentcactus on Friday October 10, 2008 @11:26AM (#328915)
Re:Brokers Hand on Their Faces Site by sajidu on Friday October 10, 2008 @01:38PM (#329059)
This is stupid...

Brokers don't trade with their own money, they trade on behalf of clients.

They make a living by charging their clients a small commission for making the trade. Brokers make money when the market is going up, and they make when money the market is going down.

Re:Brokers Hand on Their Faces Site by davidw on Friday October 10, 2008 @11:41AM (#328940)
Uhm. LOLcats anyone?
Re:Brokers Hand on Their Faces Site by davi on Friday October 10, 2008 @12:53PM (#329014)
I agree.

But I clicked through anyway, and, looking through the pictures, I started thinking about the stereotypy of emotion al expression, which reminded me that someday I should read Darwin's "The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals" (http://human-nature.com/darwin/emotion/contents.htm).

So, no upvote for the article, but not totally useless to me, either.

Re:Brokers Hand on Their Faces Site by tigerthink on Friday October 10, 2008 @08:53PM (#329401)
How is stock trading different from gambling? You even have to be 18 to do it.
Re:Brokers Hand on Their Faces Site by ivank on Friday October 10, 2008 @11:18AM (#328890)
Re:Brokers Hand on Their Faces Site by PStamatiou on Friday October 10, 2008 @01:26PM (#329043)
I just lol'd in the back of class and at least 4 kids turned around to look at me. :-/
Re:Brokers Hand on Their Faces Site by zandorg on Friday October 10, 2008 @07:38PM (#329362)
Reminds me of that cigar guy in the film Wall Street.