Hello Scataphagos, Yes, I can understand the mental pressure of having to make money to pay the bills.
Hello M.W., I do not have the resources to compete with quants. This is what I mean. I do not know what a quant is, and I do not care what a quant is. I do what is simple and less time consuming. Stare at Price TA and click the buy and sell button. I do not have a preference, algo or manual trading. I personally do both.
There is a middle ground between petabytes of tick and alternative data and highly trained data engineers on one side and sitting like a monkey and watching green and yellow lines that are exclusively derived from historical data and have absolutely zero bearing on the future. The latter is pure gambling and any past edge has been arbed away years ago. And that's generally reflected in the negative pnl generated over the lifetime of multiple accounts. There is absolutely no way guys like @SunTrader make a single dime across any given quarter with the nonsense they are posting. Same goes with the bs @Scataphagos is posting. He should have never been allowed to open a brokerage account and he would be wealthy by now had he just opened up a mom and pop computer shop in his hometown.