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How many people make a living Day Trading?

#1
Of course it's not easy, and of course many people have lost nearly everything trying, but who knows of, or is a professional day/swing trader?
 
Really appreciate honest feedback.
 
Hope you're having a great trading day.
 
For stable minded, focused, hard working people, seems like it would be a good life verses working 10 to 12 hours a day in an office or jobs we don't like...
 
Thoughts?
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#2
I wouldn't give up your day job unless you have some long term experience making some consistently good profits thru up and down markets.
 
Personally, I don't know anyone who has been able to make a decent living over a long period of time from day trading.....Good Luck!
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#3
Not sure if you can count mutual fund/EFT managers day traders since a good number of them would likely trade daily  Cool

Personally, I dream of making a living Day Dreaming.
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#4
I would do anything to work whenever I wanted, premarket, regular session, after hours, to be able to say I made enough Mon Tues, & Wednesday I think we can go on a 4 day cruise.
 
We could trade on the beach, vacationing, traveling and even while driving.
 
Can take a break whenever we want, go for a jog, to the gym, whatever.
 
What could be better?
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#5
(11-29-2018, 11:50 AM)Kwill Wrote: I would do anything to work whenever I wanted, premarket, regular session, after hours, to be able to say I made enough Mon Tues, & Wednesday I think we can go on a 4 day cruise.
 
We could trade on the beach, vacationing, traveling and even while driving.
 
Can take a break whenever we want, go for a jog, to the gym, whatever.
 
What could be better?

Build real wealth then go hang out at the beach and vacation when you want to.....that is what we did.
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#6
works only on those info commercials one sees at 3 AM I believe the people who think they can make money at it have a gambling component to their personality, don't know anybody personally who can do it year after year
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#7
In my opinion, trying to compete in day trading from one's bedroom is a sucker's game. You're up against high speed computers doing program trading from within a mile of the exchanges in order to try to beat each other to the punch. By the home-trader's order gets there, the opportunities are long gone, and it's been that way for about the past 20 years:
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#8
Some folks are lucky at it.  There are some interesting youtube videos of day traders. 
 
For me... I spend too much time reading this forum and a few other financial blogs to do DTg.  There are many good folks on this forum, Seeking Alpha and others that have been there, done that.
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