📉 97%가 손실 본다는데, 그럼 왜 트레이딩을 할까?

This chart is silly

Only 550 players make it to the NBA and as a high schooler you have a 0.03% to become a player on the major league. So why does ANYONE try? Just give up and dont even try - much better to be a mediocre accountant or real estate agent in the suburbs of Wisconsin somewhere.

because mastering difficult things give you rarefied access to low competition - the 97% is the feature, not the bug, provided you have the wherewithal & mettle to be in the 3%

Just don't do daytrading

You have a 50% chance of losing. 97% of participants dont know how to win 51+% of the time.

I'm all for the thrill!!

Damn, imagine putting your money in something else than trading.

It's aspirational. The lottery has a 1 in 300,000,000 (about 0.0000003%) chance of winning, and millions of people play every week. People want to believe that they can sit at their computer for the first 30 minutes of market open and make double their day job salary. Combine that with the tendency of people to overestimate their own abilities, and the gambling-like quality that trading often has, and you have the numbers above.

We should also remember that day trading isn't the only possible black hole into which people throw their hard-earned money. People spend tens of thousands of dollars on luxury cars and boats that will eventually be worth basically nothing. They buy premium designer clothes that will one day be decomposing in a landfill somewhere. They buy expensive golf clubs, jewelry that has no intrinsic value, and go on grand vacations that will one day be nothing more than a memory.

You absolutely should be investing in your future in safer instruments, like tax-advantaged retirement accounts invested in index funds. If you day trade, it should be with a small percentage of your overall wealth (say 10% or less), and you should acknowledge that you are likely to lose it all. If people do that, I have absolutely no problem with them trying intraday trading.

As a final thought: day trading can be an on-ramp for other successes in finance. I started intraday trading and scalping. I wasn't very good at it. I found my way to swing trading and wheel trading with options. I'm not making "quit your job money," but I'm headed that way. And I don't think I would have found those avenues without trying intraday trading.

Because that’s a lot of ppl I can take money from. Ppl who are less experienced, with inferior infrastructure and terrible psychology and risk management.

Because I love gambling. It's that simple, folks.

For most people, yes

Everyone who trades is not a trader - most are gamblers at best. Those that learn the market mechanics, master their emotions and most improtantly manage risk are successful.

Look up trading loss videos on youtube and it gives you an idea of those contributing to this statistic - gambling 100% of their accounts on 1 sec tickers, revenge trading and failing to cut losses

https://www.businessinsider.com/day-trading-strategies-hard-making-money-volatile-managing-emotions-2025-11

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Because when there’s a will, there’s a way

YOU have a 97% chance of losing lol I dont.

No in all seriousness, when you look how most people approach the market.
How little they know. Its no surprise that 97% lose.

Most people take years to learn how properly.

And thats mostly because

A. The internet is a mess with 9000+ super profitable trading systems you have to try next

B. Most people probably bought 1 or 2 of them

C. Took them a long time to realize that a simple robust system isnt hard to make

D. Once they had that system mastered then they realized its your self that had to be mastered all along.

If your smart, you did all this with Sim accounts or low risk love money.

But Most people blow up several accounts on the way

honestly I didn't know this statistic when I started, I thought maybe after 2-3 years you have a good chance, and 5-7 is almost guaranteed. I thought that the 90% lose because they quit. But no, it's the people which don't quit, of which 97% not just 90 lose. It is bad odds

The main reason for most will be the upside is very high, you could earn way more money than with any normal job and have more freedom.

Then the 97% lose because of broker fees. You can minimize that by backtesting and trading small accounts until you're consistent.

For me, traditional careers are stressful it seems like too much performance pressure, I would rather work an easy job and spend more of my own time trying to earn extra in exchange. I also like the challenge it's honestly an interesting riddle, I just hope its actually possible and not just random noise on a chart.

I think ur finally understanding why daytrading doesnt work 😂😂. Save urself some stress and just invest it instead. U can try and trade only if there is a huge shock in price and the reason for it is superficial. Eg tariffs.

This figure is wrong … hereby the correct figures.

https://www.quantvps.com/blog/day-trading-stats