A while back someone told me that there is such as a group of people..?

who sit next to the computer all day and trade stocks. When the stock is going down they buy it and when its going up they sell it. I was wondering if that is true that you can do all the trading on your computer without leaving home or asking some one elsse to do it. And if it is true, then is it available to everyone, or you have to be a broker. And if you don't have to be a broker, then how does it work?

Answer:
What you are describing is called day-trading. It's entirely possible to do from home; there are only two questions: (1) where do you get starting capital?, and (2) do you have a strategy that allows you to win consistently? Plenty of day-traders go belly-up or quit after incurring heavy losses. Other Questions and Answers:
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