One of my buddies goes around through multiple agencies then gets a backdoor agreement to go direct. Only had it backfire once and he paid 10k to settle for what turned out to be a 600K contract. You gotta have balls if you want to do better than average.
I thought professional traders are those that work for institutions, HF, mutual funds, investment banks... They mostly trade OPM, gets their pay from collecting a fee, + 20% of gain? NYC average finance salary ~$99K, top finance type collect billions every year. So professional traders compare very well against your list. Us amateur retails, we trade our own funds. Even for us full timers, we are mostly small potato compare to HF..., but we don't need a salary.
Final tally: figures assuming full time earnings 250 work-days per year. 1) Internet Entrepreneurs ($10k per diem) 2) Drug Dealers 3) Sports figures 4) Movie stars ($7k per diem) 5) Corporate CEOs 6) Lawyers 7) Doctors / Surgeons (especially cosmetic - those guys make a fortune !) 8) IT Professionals ($1k per diem) 9) Escorts 10) Financial Advisors
%% I agree. And it's more common for business owners+pro salesmen/women to make big bucks. But some traders/investors run their trading like a business. And other good points about the the location/ low pay of UK doctors.....
What country are you paying 33% "employment taxes" in? We're talking 3.8% marginal in the U.S. if you're making over $250k married joint filing.
It may be compared with the IT professional salary. It's possible to earn around $2000 a month, but sometimes the figures are much lower. I recently started trading cryptocurrency on forex, maybe it will help to stabilize the situation. It may sound strange, but crypto market is much more easily to predict now due to downfall trend. Btc and other altcoins don't show tremendous price hikes, which is why forex trading suits it best. If someone interested, I may recommend crypto accounts at justforex broker with dozens of cryptocurrency pairs (the list is described here). Anyway, without enormous budget you aren't able to earn tens of thousands of dollars.
If you can find an IT Professional anywhere in the western world willing to work for $2,000 a month who knows what they're doing please send them my way! Maybe you for got a zero on that?
Problem is in general not budget, but knowledge... And the knowledge whether you have that knowledge or not. Many miss that. Especially those who say: markets are random 90% lose it is impossible to make money consistently etc...