Most retail traders actually lose money and even less can beat the market. https://raposa.trade/blog/four-reasons-why-retail-traders-lose-money-in-the-markets/
If you cannot dedicate yourself full time to learning stocks and options and whatever is there any point in trying to trade by yourself other than for educational purposes to understand how things work? Shouldn't most people just max out their retirement accounts and stick the rest of their money in a mutual fund or 100 percent into something like VTI and buy and hold?
I know one of my friends' parents who is a day trader and has been for like 10 years and they are the only person I know who makes money in the stock market. They are full-time day trader however. I only know of one other person who was my coworker and he made money trading futures for 2 years but he is exceptionally smart with a PhD in computer science. Nobody else that I know has made money consistently day trading or swing trading, just people who bought and held etfs and blue chips.
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