They are gone. That model only worked when traders could churn 100's of thousands of shares a day. Nobody does that outside of HFT firms. I agree on the coding suggestion. Look, if she is young she has no idea what she wants yet, none of us did at that age. And like all of us, she thinks she "knows" stocks because she watches CNBC. The truth is she could probably trade palladium as well as she could trade AAPL. Regardless, the best advice you could give her is to learn R and Python and she can start for free at several places then shell out a few bucks (literally) for datacamp.
