Stock market trading wars: Dad vs teenager - who gets the better returns, in Reddit-inspired era?

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Like a lot of parents these days, Cameron Crise is dealing with a teenager at home who wants to get into day-trading and reap the type of windfalls boasted about by the WallStreetBets crowd. Crise, a former hedge-fund trader and now a columnist for Bloomberg, had a novel way of handling the situation. Inspired by the classic movie “Trading Places,” he proposed a $1 bet on where GameStop shares were headed and another wager that his son Patrick could not double his money in three days. Who won? And what can teenagers tell us about what's happening in stock markets? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
8 Feb 2021 1PM English South Africa Investing · Business News

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