High-Risk Currency Trading Is the New Meme Stock for This Retail Crowd A growing band of mom-and-pop investors are dabbling in FX trading — and their billions in collective wagers are beginning to worry finance veterans Samantha Greer is definitely not your stereotypical day trader. She’s a 46-year-old lawyer in Nottingham, England, who begins her day at 5 a.m. poring over market trend charts and punching in trades — maybe £1,000 ($1,350) a pop if she feels confident; just a couple hundred if she doesn’t — before whipping up breakfast for her son, dropping him at school and rushing into the office to start her legal job at 10 a.m.
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High-Risk Currency Trading Is the New Meme Stock for This Retail Crowd

A growing band of mom-and-pop investors are dabbling in FX trading — and their billions in collective wagers are beginning to worry finance veterans

Samantha Greer is definitely not your stereotypical day trader.

She’s a 46-year-old lawyer in Nottingham, England, who begins her day at 5 a.m. poring over market trend charts and punching in trades — maybe £1,000 ($1,350) a pop if she feels confident; just a couple hundred if she doesn’t — before whipping up breakfast for her son, dropping him at school and rushing into the office to start her legal job at 10 a.m.