Bypassing the Brokers

Savvy little guys use Wall Street's own computers to outsmart market pros

Gary Ciuffetelli once scraped out a living in a machine shop, but now he's getting ready to "ride a wave," as they say at All-Tech Investment Group in Suffern, New York. Dressed in shorts and a T shirt, the 33-year-old trader stares at a computer screen linked to the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation System (NASDAQ), the world's second largest stock market after the New York Stock Exchange. Sensing that Lotus stock is starting to climb, Ciuffetelli tells an All-Tech clerk to buy 1,000 shares. The clerk presses a few buttons on his keyboard, and the deal is automatically...

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