I wouldn't be surprised.
Day-trading started out as momentum trading during the tech boom. Doesn't seem to me to have progressed much beyond that - buy what's rising fastest, hope to sell before it stops going up.
I wouldn't be surprised.
Day-trading started out as momentum trading during the tech boom. Doesn't seem to me to have progressed much beyond that - buy what's rising fastest, hope to sell before it stops going up.
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So what and maybe overall it is 1% and if so then we have had our fair share of them on Trade2Win.
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I know a few who have come and gone. They made money back then and still make money today. Albeit some have retired or dropped out to consider alternate paths in life.
Lee
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The thing I hate about rebuttal teams and debunkers, is the truth gets hidden .Once we know why 95% lose and their problem , then we can solve the problems .If the problem gets debunked and rebutted , then no solution is created.As a result traders keep losing forever.
I realized what the problem with the 95% and why they lose , so I created a defensive system of making money and not to lose.It is there in my thread on indices.
Progress!
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I've never been comfortable calling losing traders... 'Traders'. Nor would many traders that I know. Could you imagine a consistently losing trader or short term lucky one goes in to a room full of long term successful traders and say's, Hi guys, I'm a Trader. 
It would be the same as a bankrupt homeless guy calling himself a business man because he sold some stuff on the internet once or a person with an idea an 'Entrepreneur'. I actually had that one recently. Oh how I laughed.
I could go on with examples of this but I don't feel the need. Many will argue this point as they themselves could be losing traders but yet want the title. Short term successful/lucky doesn't count. For example, I open a restaurant and its full every night for 2 months, does that make a successful restaurateur? Difficult one but I wouldn't be happy with saying yes. I would want a fair amount more time than that. Not a definitive time, but a bit longer I reckon.
We live in a world where titles mean more than the value of their money or/and time.
To be a trader surely one has to be trading successfully, otherwise they are just a money giver to those who do trade.
Lee
It would be the same as a bankrupt homeless guy calling himself a business man because he sold some stuff on the internet once or a person with an idea an 'Entrepreneur'. I actually had that one recently. Oh how I laughed.
I could go on with examples of this but I don't feel the need. Many will argue this point as they themselves could be losing traders but yet want the title. Short term successful/lucky doesn't count. For example, I open a restaurant and its full every night for 2 months, does that make a successful restaurateur? Difficult one but I wouldn't be happy with saying yes. I would want a fair amount more time than that. Not a definitive time, but a bit longer I reckon.
We live in a world where titles mean more than the value of their money or/and time.
To be a trader surely one has to be trading successfully, otherwise they are just a money giver to those who do trade.
Lee
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BTW Being a restaurant-er is possibly as difficult , because 100 people will visit , only 10% will like the taste of the restaurant .
Some barristers earn £3m a year ,others earn £20, 000 a year .the ones on £20k lose a high proportion of their cases , does it make them failures , barristers or new barristers?
The point about diagnosis is , go to a doctor and doctor looks at the cause of the problem , then he treats it .Go to the trading industry and tell them a problem (95% lose) , everybody tries to debunk it , says go away , there is no such problem!.
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Yes, I think you've got to be a professional - either employed or self employed - to properly merit the title. Nonetheless I think it's reasonable for the rest of us to say that we "do a bit of trading" to describe our efforts (for good or ill ) even though it would perhaps be ott to announce ourselves as traders.
) even though it would perhaps be ott to announce ourselves as traders.
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Hi Foroom,
You make an excellent point here. They are all barristers and they are all making money.
The question is though, is a barrister that is not making money (unemployed) still a barrister? If so, I am still a school boy.
Lee
