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Good thing for you, both can be done.
Maybe NOT on a 5 minute chart-that's noise. As IBD founder noted trading is like medical school.
Requires elementary school,
college,
med school,
internship-low wages,
big bucks can follow, unless one is stupid enough to want socialized med LOL
Investing is not quite that complicated; trading can be.Boy plunger went for grade school, to trading= most will not do that....................................................................
Livermore spent his adolescence working in bucket shops learning the trade so it makes sense he jumped right in.
But i get your point, you gotta invest the time and effort to be good at anything.