Question How do I make a killing in stocks as a mutant?

Where being a mutant would benefit being a broker or a day trader - is the ability to accumulate and comprehend large amounts of information fairly quickly. The 'best' stock trading happens as a result of someone drawing the connection between a research article, an employee hiring, the purchase of a certain type of material or manufacturing process, and changes that are predictive of company growth to support a released product. These sorts of things exist in almost every 'huge' leap in value of a stock... but few people are able to constantly stay ahead of all the research, where the researchers are being hired, and the ramping up process of implementing and building a distribution model... and the biggest stock growth points occur with public announcements at/near the end of this sequence, when a company publicly reveals its new product. The sooner in the sequence you buy in, the greater the leap in value your stocks will have.

So, accumulation of a large volume of information and being able to tie it into appropriate flags for potential purchases is a beneficial trait. Basically, its making use of public information to mimic the benefit of insider trading. As long as you are capable of citing the public sources of your information, it would always be legal.