Same as in day trading, looking at a higher timeframe will make you money. Humanity stays the same as two hundred years ago. I know a Harvard medical PhD sold his drug patents to China for more than what the big phamas are willing to buy. Instead of laboring his patents in a biotech IPO, which may or may not work out, he is now hanging out to trade biotech stocks. https://www.history.com/news/industrial-revolution-spies-europe In his 1791 “Report on Manufactures,” Hamilton advocated rewarding those bringing “improvements and secrets of extraordinary value” into the country. Among those who took great interest in Hamilton’s treatise was Thomas Attwood Digges, one of several American industrial spies who prowled the British Isles in the late 18th and early 19th centuries in search of not just cutting-edge technologies but skilled workers who could operate and maintain those machines.