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High-risk day trading is all the rage in the military, but experts say soldiers could be sabotaging retirement plans
Yahoo Finance· 2026-01-10 11:00
For some service members, the action they’re seeing isn’t on the battlefield — it’s in the markets. While some are making big money through high-risk stock trading and other short-term, risky investments, others worry that this approach might not end well. A recent Wall Street Journal article reports that military bases and barracks “are fertile ground for investing frenzies,” since they’re “full of young people — many already natural risk-takers — with time to kill, disposable income and few taboos” (1). ...