From Forbes:

The role of sucker on Wall Street has traditionally been played by retail investors, although less so in recent years. New regulations give brokerages less leeway to fill orders at lousy prices, and hordes of high-frequency traders have arbitraged spreads to next to nothing.

Even so, if every penny counts for you, there are still ways to avoid being the dumb money in a trade.

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