A mindset should really be like this one.All things begin on being a noob and to enhance out yourself with trade then you would need to experience things up.
Living with trading is possible but dont expect to be constantly profitable on daily basis.There would always a time for you to lose and success will vary on how you do trade up.
This is why only a few who do able to maintain such thing and making it as a living and the rest? Are still trying out their best but when we do talk about possibility then its really there.
In fact a good day trader could trade the markets without having a losing day during their careers, I know this sounds impossible but think about it, if 97% of the traders are losing money when they day trade then that means that the rest are getting all the profits.
This means that for every successful trader there are about 32 losers, can you imagine getting those kind of profits daily? I can and everyone else as well which is why day trading is so popular.
No I don't think that is true. I agree with you that there is a very small percentage of people out there that can successfully daytrade but most likely they do have losing days. I am pretty sure the reason why they are able to make a living out of it is because they got a few winners, a few losers, a few break-evens, but they also got a few HUGE winners and never have any HUGE losers. And that's why they are able to stay in the game.
Most people are the other way around, they got a few winners, losers, break-evens, never have any large winners and have a few HUGE losers which cleans them out. Even my friends who trade the stock market cant make money when it keeps going to new highs every few weeks. They basically buy a stock, went it goes up 5% or so they sell. If it doesn't go anywhere they sell it at break-even and just lose the commission. However they never use stop losses so when a stock goes against them they just wait for it to go back up or worse they buy more to get a better average. And eventually since there is a strong bull market due to Trump they get their money back. But there will be a time when it won't come back and will lead to huge losses like losing 50% of your entire savings due to one bad stock trade.