They cruise the stock market for issues that are shooting through the roof or crashing through the floor. I don't know what happened to the stock. I don't care. Making money on the upward trend in stocks is intuitive. But the day trader doesn't really care if a stock is going up or down.
Any fluctuation can be profitable.
Take the downward-trending stock. Veteran traders share tips, tell jokes and sometimes cluster around one another's computers. They've seen their share of calamities, and they're determined not to become market road kill. A shaggy-haired gentleman wearing a 49ers sweatshirt is exhorting Salehi to check out 3Com stock. 3Com seems to be a Pacific favorite, at least on this day.