개인 트레이더에게 트레이딩은 찬성할 만한가? 🤔

If you are trying to out HFT the HFT firms you are correct, it’s a losing game. If you’re able to let them drive the market, ignore the first 25% and the last 25% of a move, and capture the middle 50%, you can have a long career and make great money.

The most obvious pro-trading argument: You can earn a 6-figure income by spending less than an hour per day at your computer. 160 hours per month vs 20 hours (assuming Monday-Friday for 4 weeks).

Another huge upside: You can do it from literally anywhere you have an internet connection; no requesting time off, no planning vacations around meetings or deadlines. You are **free.**

It’s not a guarantee, but if you can find your edge and stick to your strategy, you can have something money can’t buy: more time.

Are you perhaps overestimating the power of an invisible enemy to compensate for your own insecurities?

Win more than you lose long term, trading should be treated as a business not money machine, remember losses are your expenses and wins are your revenue, it's as simple as that.

I have been consistently beating the market for the past few years, i started by working on my strategy using the backtestpods platform, as they provide institutional grade hardware and tons of historical data also most of the information you talk about are publicly available, all you just need is to know where to look, perhaps start at looking the backtestpods then forcus on efxdata, financialjuice and look at orderflows

ride their coat tails instead

Trading can be gambling depending on how you do it but good traders aren’t gambling. They follow a system, if A then B happens I do C. When I do this I hit my price target 38% of the time, so I know to factor in how much i’m risking per trade to account for that win ratio. Gambling centers around your emotions, trading a system has nothing to do with how you feel you just execute your plan when parameters are met. Sounds easier than it is though it takes a lot of effort and experience to not let your emotions take control, there’s a reason only like 3-5% of people are profitable after 5 years.

If you're a gambler by nature, or if you're trying to compete with the HFT's, then you will likely fail.

There are however many strategies and setups than an indivual can learn, paractice and become consistanly profitable.

Stock speculators have existed since the begenning of the markets, sonce the 1600's

The tools available to independant traders has never been better. If you exclude the HFT's it's a pretty level playing field.

The reason why so many fail.. is due to being, poorly trained, unrealistic time horizon, poorly capitalized.

The Turtle traders was a great example, if you are not familiar, look it up.

I've been a trader and investor for 36 years, paid my dues, took my losses.. but once I found something that worked (for me) I stuck with it.. didn't go chasing every new idea and setup.

A floor trader, who trades by order flow alone earns a living following just 1 instrument for an entire career.

Becoming that intimate with ONE stock (or commodity) IMO is a big part of fiinding success.

My watch list has a max of 5 instruments at any one time.

Give it up bro, it's not for u, it's actually not for the majority of retail traders who aren't so intelligent

>Even if you are really good, it's hard to beat a robot with access to information and hardware you don't have.

Ok and some people are that good to where they make consistent money and it can give you more flexibility and freedom than basically any other career. Like what are you expecting people to say here?