Over a decade ago, it was moms and pops downing tools and picking up mice to day-trade the latest and greatest dot-com wunder-stock from their home-office/kitchen table. Now, as equities perch atop a pile of rotten Federal Reserve effluent, it is tweens and below that are sought for their stock market prowess. Forget Rachel Fox - the 16 year old actress-cum-Jesse-Livermore, [3] now we have 11-year-old Rachel Kelly from Naperville who is touted as an example of the greatness of our education system by CNBC because, "because people are going to need to trade stocks long after we're gone... it's inspiration for other 11-year-olds out there." Indeed we are.
