Day trading is losers game

Discussion in 'Trading' started by oilfxpro, May 17, 2011.

  1. Have you heard from Naina yet, Mrs. Dalmation?
     
    #81     May 19, 2011
  2. I'll post lots if you pay me just for the profitable ones. If I'm such a scab that shouldn't cost you much, right?
     
    #82     May 19, 2011
  3. t0pd0g

    t0pd0g

    I disagree that the stock market is a zero sum game....where every time someone makes money someone has to lose. For example, when LNKD opened at $81 today and I bought there and sold at $82, who lost?

    Every trader I talked to made money going long LNKD today!

    Another example...A stock closes at $25 one day with no shorts outstanding and opens the next day at $30. Who lost money?

    Options and futures zero sum...stocks not.
     
    #83     May 19, 2011
  4. You need a model(and a clue) to consistently make money! I have a very conservative model that has made me money every month for the past 8 years. Granted I need to tweak it once in a while when things change, but to think that you can't make money day trading is retarded!
     
    #84     May 19, 2011
  5. That's what I thought. All talk. No sheep.
     
    #85     May 19, 2011

  6. if you only made $1 on that gamble, you lost. Next time you lose $5

    Not to mention the $ you left on the table for no particular reason
     
    #86     May 19, 2011
  7. BSAM

    BSAM

    Why do the people who claim one can't make money trading spend so much time on ET trying to prove it to others?

    Why don't they spend all that time learning to trade?

    Too simple, huh?
     
    #87     May 19, 2011
  8. LOL, guess so :)

     
    #88     May 19, 2011
  9. I'll post lots of trades and a majority of them will make money but why should you benefit from them?
     
    #89     May 19, 2011
  10. You make wayyyy too much sense. +1

    One explanation is that the naysayers are failed traders and it just waxes their butts to think someone succeeded where they failed miserably.
     
    #90     May 19, 2011