Simply to understand that receiving the full offer of the market pales anything in comparison.
Investing and trading are frequently lumped together when the distinction is more clarifying. Both can embrace ambiguity and the opportunities that arise from that state but one attempts to ride out price oscillations and the other capitalizes on the oscillation itself.
The money velocity possible from either when realized is a by-product of understanding the market's system of operation.
It's worth the journey of self-discovery for the discerning, preservering and disciplined few. It's also a road of paradox, confusion, negative logic and significant emotional, mental, spiritual and financial costs for countless others.
Through a process of market observation, annotating, logging, deciding and acting, one can develop an agile contextual understanding of the Price Volume Relationship where the majority do not.
Working with a mentor and observing smaller, faster timescales can increase the pace of learning. The market itself can be an amazing zen teacher - serving a good whack when one's not in the present moment.
Discernment is the key skill and is applied always in the areas of our lives we wish to improve. Discernment applied in 5min intervals requires capacity. Capacity which only comes from Monitoring, Analyzing, Deciding and Acting via logging in 5min(or higher) intervals not just staring at a screen. Staring at a screen is an unpurposeful waste of time for no quality inference is being built.
Many attempt with varying degrees of success to automate via backtesting. The truth only comes out with forward testing whether the assumptions built into one's system accurately model the Market's System of Operation or not.
With all that said, if you still get juice from RE, tweeking your biz is most likely the easier, faster and less stressful way to achieve your goals.
I shifted from that arena when I lost a bunch of houses to foreclosure back in 2008-9 which was a result of my lack of inspiration amid a rapidly changing market - that and not screening renters properly.
Solving people's problems and closing houses with private assignable contracts on kitchen tables was fun and something I miss occasionally - that and big checks!
I don't miss waiting for those checks, especially those times when the big check never came.
Thus we can witness the power of today's market's where a big/small check for those that can read markets is a small sequence of correct mouse clicks away.
