It doesn't matter whether the market is up or down. All the day traders want is volatility.

When I got out of school, I lived the myth of Horatio Alger, and my company was on the cover of 'Fortune' magazine because it processed over ten percent of NASDAQ's daily trading volume. I had achieved what I thought was the pinnacle of success in this proud, techno-capitalist country.

I stopped asking myself questions like what the value of my stock was and started asking more fundamental questions of life and death.

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