Thats a good plan and your returns are pretty decent. Do you rebalance between the trading, swing trading, and investing accounts?
Good point. And there is survivorship bias too. Well I am fairly well studied on the concept of long term investing, and also the general...
You're not playing devil's advocate at all. You're saying something completely irrelevant to what I was challenging, and also something I agree...
I think most do realize though. And plus, as mentioned before, there are too much variables here to make a sweeping generalization. First of all,...
Yeah, I think your allocation makes sense. Those kinds of historical sell-offs are a humbling experience, and right after that are once in a...
Nice plan. Its good you have the house paid down and the wife is working too for continued salary over the longer term. And judging from your $20K...
Investing/trading _is_ a game. It has rules, it has character and money are the points in this game. Thats the main reason why quants do so well...
I don't think I ever denied it. I don't think anyone here or elsewhere denied it. Tax is an issue. Commissions are an issue. I don't understand...
First of all you are way over generalizing here anyway, since not everyone pays the highest tax bracket. Also, a serious trader might trade inside...
Yeah but my point is its hard to make a blanket statement about higher frequency of trading being poor compared to buy and hold due to...
Hard to say. While it may seem 'long term investing' without triggering a realized capital gains can seem to allow gains to be compounded with...
How many people are truly full time @home traders that trade only their own capital and are breadwinner of the family? It seems a majority of...
Depends on the price of the company and the fundamentals. I think anything more than 30% of your total AUM in a single position is very heavy....
Yeah. I think anyone contemplating a career as a home trader needs a six figure account to even be serious about it. A good trader may get 20%...
OTM? Yeah, well depends how someone obtained their initial trading capital. If someone started with nothing to their name or something small...
Yeah I think thats true. I think the general perception, which likely is true anyway, is that most traders lose over the long term. So they see...
For sure you should just focus on what makes you happy. But actually I find people have different perspective for a home trader vs a hedge fund or...
Honestly, I dont like the distinction people tend to make with 'investing' vs 'trading'. I think all bets on the market are forms of speculation....
Paper accounts are useless. So different when you have real money on the line. </br > </br > For jokes I run a paper account alongside my real. I...
I get what you're trying to say but ibankers have the establishment behind them. They may have huge egos and play 'hard to get', but behind them...
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