https://www.yahoo.com/news/no-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-not-203625115.html pelosi or loeffler would have been easier targets.
Professional day traders can make a good living. Then you put savings into long term investments. That formula results in the best over all return.
No they can't. They have already done the studies. Maybe stop watching youtube videos with the guy holding wads of cash, sitting on a yacht with scantily clad women.
The word is professional, who are traders who have made money for years if not decades, with high return on capital. Professional traders are a very small subset of the universe of traders. They are a few percentage wise, likely less than .005 of all traders.
They do not exist purely as day traders. Day trading is not a profitable endeavor long term. AND they certainly aren't going to compete with algorithms or HFT's who react to the market in milliseconds.
HFT traders are day traders of the highest level of expertise. They have created better tools for themselves and the results are there, including lower costs and faster order entry. It is a profitable niche business.