Why is day-trading considered so hard?


I'm somewhat of a noob when it comes to financial instruments and the like, but just by watching trends in the values of stocks throughout the day, there are windows (30 minutes to a few hours) where a stock appears to rise in value. If you bought and sold these quickly enough, wouldn't you be guaranteed to make an (albeit small) profit every time? Like, the odds of the stock going down the moment you buy it are extremely low, so if you allotted 10-15 minutes or so for the value to rise and then quickly dipped out, shouldn't this consistently work in your favor?


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