Amateur Day Traders Fuel an Options Boom

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In the past few years, the volume of options trading, especially short-dated deals, has skyrocketed, The Wall Street Journal reported. A lot of that is thanks to amateur investors lured by new trading apps that eschew an investment mindset and encourage users to think of financial markets as casinos.

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Source Fool.com