Anyone here love the art of stock trading whether it's Options,

>>1433133
nah i just dollar cost average into the s&p500 every month and leave it at that

feels better knowing I put in 2 minutes per month to buy and I will come out ahead of 90% stock pickers in the long run who spend many hours doing bullshit analysis and looking at charts to find patterns that don't even exist

>>1433136
>bullshit analysis and looking at charts to find patterns

Only day trader idiots do that , but you're not wrong

>>1433133
but for most individual trades you're generally not 'right' but just lucky... trading is really about exploiting small edges... you finish in profit 'in the long run' if your trading activity is +EV but for individual trades (for an active trader) the outcome is mostly luck (albeit with a slight edge in your favour)

there are very few occasions where someone has a huge edge - your pic is relevant to this though... those occasions are where a lot of money can be made... but if you were able to find them consistently then you'd be one of the richest people in the world... most traders have to get by mostly exploiting small edges

everyone else is generally kidding themselves over short term variance, mistaking beat for alpha and/or simply doesn't have the sample size

>>1433204
>but for individual trades (for an active trader) the outcome is mostly luck (albeit with a slight edge in your favour)

to clarify... that is when referring to profitable traders(mostly professionals and very few retail)... most retail traders don't have a small edge to begin with but essentially just generate noise... add in the transaction costs and they mostly tend to lose money

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>tfw you buy at the lowest dip and sell at the highest spike

>>1433210
>when u spin the roulette wheel and it lands on the number u pick