More Men Are Addicted to the ‘Crack Cocaine’ of the Stock Market

More Men Are Addicted to the ‘Crack Cocaine’ of the Stock Market·The Wall Street Journal

A new type of addict is showing up at Gamblers Anonymous meetings across the country: investors hooked on the market’s riskiest trades. At Gamblers Anonymous in the Murray Hill neighborhood of Manhattan, one man called options “the crack cocaine” of the stock market. Another said he faced hundreds of thousands of dollars in trading losses after borrowing from a loan shark to double down on stocks.

Advertisement