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Day trading is difficult and requires a lot of practice, knowledge, and patience, but saying you’ll lose every time isn’t always true. There are many many profi
by sweetheart 6y ago
Day trading is difficult and requires a lot of practice, knowledge, and patience, but saying you’ll lose every time isn’t always true. There are many many profitable retail day traders. HFT don’t really compete too much because they look to scalp differently.
- swader999 6y agoA three to five percent success rate applied to a large population will produce "many many" winners. This is true.
- dannyw 6y agoThe people who make money tend to put in more money.
- bidirectional 6y agoYou can apply the same logic to suggest no one should start a business.
- swader999 6y agoYes, if it's business is day trading. The success rates of other kinds of businesses vary.
- WJW 6y agoThat would be appropriate advice for a large slice of the population, so I don't see the problem there.
- Spivak 6y agoBusiness is a field where we know for sure that being better at it increases your chances to the point where your expected profit is positive. Individual day trading is less clear. Sure, you can get better at it to increase your odds but it seems like that isn’t enough to make those skilled people in aggregate make money. The analogy in a casino is that perfect play means you’ll do better but there’s still house advantage and so on average perfect players will still lose money.
- Spivak 6y agoAnd you have to be able to correlate their success rate with some measure of skill or else you’re basically saying that not everyone loses the lottery. The claim to prove is that having some level of knowledge or skill makes the expected gains of day trading positive.