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These people are going to get individual stock trading banned for retail investors. Their stupidity will unfortunately have consequences for everyone



Wait to you see what else people piss their money away on.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/william-hill-fined-192...

For example.


> £23,000 in 20 minutes

That's pretty impressive. Best I've personally witnessed was a stripper who finished her show and then came out to the video poker machines and started shoveling cash into it. Her hands never stopped moving, the dollar balance would jump up as she put in another bill, then every few seconds drop as she bet and lost. Over and over until she (presumably) ran out of cash. We counted over $1000 into that machine in less than half an hour.


Nah that's pretty unlikely. No leveraged trades/options/derivatives without some kind of accredition + a max order limit based on proof of funds/ income could happen, though.




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