Futures trading has become one of the hottest businesses in recent years, fueled by demand from hedge funds and Wall Street banks looking to charge trading revenue by diversifying beyond lower-margin stocktrading.
FORBES: The Vultures Are Circling
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Many private investors had got money on credit to play the seemingly unstoppable stock market, just as some of their 1990s counterparts play today's market by "margin" trading on the internet.