POLL: Who is most profitable, with reasonable risk?

[rcanfiel]

POLL: On average, who is most profitable (with reasonable risk)?

 

[achilles28]

Easy.

Day traders. Good day traders can swing, position trade, or scalp for that matter - as well as day trade.

Just a matter of perspective

Yea, it comes down to opportunity.

The more opportunity you have, all else equal (ie traders skill/profitability), the more money made.

 

[rcanfiel]

Quote from achilles28:

Easy.

Day traders. Good day traders can swing, position trade, or scalp for that matter - as well as day trade.

Hmmm. Some think that price movements are fractal in nature - that trading monthly, daily, or 5 minute bars are quite similar. Others think not, that they require quite different techniques...

 

[achilles28]

Quote from rcanfiel:

Hmmm. Some think that price movements are fractal in nature - that trading monthly, daily, or 5 minute bars are quite similar. Others think not, that they require quite different techniques...

Sure. Opinions abound.

IMHO, longer term trends towards fundamentals yet retains - albeit to a lesser extent - the same technical principles evident on the short term.

Really depends on the instrument as well. Some more technical then others etc.

 

[rcanfiel]

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[pv150]

And daytraders win because daytraders think it's daytraders and ET is crawling with em.

BTW, I've seen nothing but failed prop daytraders in just a couple years, during this bull market of all things. Even the rising stars once featured in Trader Monthly churning 100k shares a day...THEY'RE GONE. (Alright,aspiring daytraders, don't take offense. I mean to say "it depends on your style". Honest.)

I vote futures and options, for the well capitalized of course. But that's what I do.

 

[rcanfiel]

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