Société Générale Kerviel's lawyer called for his client to be acquitted. The ruling was announced on October 5, 2010, at 11 am. Jérôme Kerviel was found guilty of the three charges filed against him: breach of trust, fraudulent inputting of data into an IT system and forgery and use of forged documents. He was found to be solely responsible for the record loss suffered by Société Générale in early 2008, and was sentenced to five years in prison, with two of those years suspended, and ordered to pay damages of 4.9 billion euros to the Bank. Jérôme Kerviel immediately launched an appeal
Day trader to whatever condition the market is in, at any given moment. Day trading is associated with risk of capital loss. According to millionaire day trader and author James Altucher, only around 5% of retail traders make money as full-time day traders. Day trading is stressful due to needing to watch of multiple screens to spot trading opportunities and then react quickly to exploit them. There are many different markets for day trading, including futures, forex, stocks, options and etf's. Because of the short time horizon, day traders will look at the market with a different perspective than a long term