WHERE INFORMATION BECOMES INTELLIGENCE

Quit your 9-to-5 and try this for a day job

By Roger Taylor

They are called "day traders" and what a day yesterday must have been. They are the ultimate short-term investors, a new breed of ultra-aggressive, technology-driven stock market speculators born out of the bull market of the past several years. They live on the kind of volatility that moved stomachs on Wall Street yesterday, buying on rising share prices, selling on the first sign of weakness, and closing all their positions at the end of the day.

But David Oros, chief executive of Aether Technologies, which provides real-time share prices to private investors, sees a growing number of technologically-driven private investors who are taking a very active approach to managing their wealth. He describes young people in Silicon Valley getting rich working for high-tech companies and using the technology they helped build to invest their wealth in technology stocks.