Agreed. Probably a large fraction of 'profitable independent day traders' mention by parent depend on luck. It's one thing to post a profitable month/year, whol

Agreed. Probably a large fraction of 'profitable independent day traders' mention by parent depend on luck. It's one thing to post a profitable month/year, whole different thing is a profitable decade. It's relatively easy to have a profitable period on a strongly bull market. But it's irrelevant if any 'unexpected' (people call such events unexpected despite the fact that they tend to happen regularly over time) event such as 2008 crisis will completely wipe you out.