Quote from CoolTraderDude:
The retail traders who do make it do so because they hit a home run... They go big (relative to their account size) on a stock and when it soars they make some money. You hear about them from the marketing factories out there who advertise them as a success story that you can follow... But in reality, all you get is survivorship bias... that is... You don't hear about the 150000 that got wiped out trying to do the exact same thing.
Real edges provide you with a boost and make trading easy and repeatable for you.
See how many of the retailers can repeat their miracle...! Again marketsurfer is telling you the truth...
absolutely. HUGE risk would be the only possible way to make it-- these churners who claim to have started with very little but built up a huge sum by day trading, at home, are simply not telling the truth.
surf


