The StarCraft fever spawned professional players for the tourneys as well as training groups vying to join them, who have well-honed skills like quick reflexes and finger dexterity.

Such skills are a must for day traders, the active stock dealers who typically hold positions for a very short time and make several aggressive online transactions a minute.

However, Goodmorning Shinhan is agonizing over the recruitment of the skillful StarCraft players since day traders must be specialists in equity investment and fund management.

So, it looks like there's a bit of a hitch: StarCraft players, shockingly enough, don't have inherent knowledge of equity investment and fundmanagement. Still, if you're a devoit realtime strategy player and are accustomed to monitoring and actively managing many different simultaneous situations, you may very well have the fundamental mental faculties necessary in high-pressure financial activities such as day trading. Video games: they teach you to steal cars and trade stocks.