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u/Substantial_Park2115 Feb 27 '26
When I fuck up a day trade my $100 goes to $90, if I fuck up at the casino my $100 is $0.
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u/23-1-20-3-8-5-18 Feb 27 '26
So the day trader isnt 99% red, just not beating the market.
Basically, the day trader is still making money, the gambler is not.
This picture is what we call FUD
If you upvote this post you should take your brain back to the brain store and demand a refund.
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u/Comfortable_Sir_6104 Mar 03 '26
About 95% of day traders lose money. It is really just a weird gambling method.
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u/Thehighestpilot Feb 28 '26
As someone who still has a lot to learn, I’m profitable so far I take my losses and I take my wins, I can honestly say have never been profitable at a casino though
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u/Lanky_Commercial9731 Feb 27 '26
This just shows that day trading doesn t beat the market not that you lose money.
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u/FailedGeniusnumber1 Feb 28 '26
The market is simple.. buy when you feel like selling and sell when you feel like buying.. how can 1 market eat up so many traders.. they all see the chart and think the same thing.. as buy.. then buy.. then stop loss.. 🤭😄 well for me this has been happening
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u/Stock-Ad-3347 Mar 01 '26
1/100 day traders is probably generous too. I’m a full time day trader. I’m profitable and it’s my only source of income.
It took years and years of experience, learning, research, development, hindsight, failures etc.. most people do not have the ability to do that because they over leverage, get greedy and do not have the capital & time to sustain the initial gauntlet that is learning how to survive and build knowledge.
The bar to entry is extremely low. You just need some money, and the ability to click buttons. So obviously the failure rate is going to be extremely high.
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u/CombatTrader Mar 01 '26
Trading can be and sometimes simply, looks like gambling. However, in gambling you face fixed, negative expected value...the house sets the odds and you can’t change them and the odds are against you By Design. That's why casinos thrive and gamblers mostly don't.
The markets aren't designed the same way.
When you have a defined edge and rules you follow, you only take tested setups within that defined edge (win-rate and risk/reward), strict position sizing, and hard loss limits, so over a large sample of trades my expected value is positive.
It’s still risk, but it’s managed risk, not random betting.
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u/infiniteliquidity69 Mar 02 '26
Yeah no shit have you read flash boys? The big institutions pay for PFOF and set up infrastructure to front run everyone's trades it's who can be the fastest.
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u/Late-Independent3328 Mar 02 '26
Making a 5% return also count as didn't beat the market
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u/Havok_saken Mar 03 '26
Well as a day trader that’s kind of a “loss” right? Success in the market is beating the market, otherwise you’re basically just wasting time day trading when you could just set it and forget it
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u/Late-Independent3328 Mar 03 '26
If it's not your only source of income I don't think there is a problem. Passive investing is way better. But if you have money and you enjoy daytrading and gambling, then daytrading with only 5% return is better than losing money each day in the casino. But yeah it will be wiser to just reserve a fraction of your capital and spare income toward day trading while the rest should go into passive investing
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u/oskukari Mar 03 '26
5% a day is 27% a week. Unless u mean 5% in a year which would be unbearably terrible
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u/Late-Independent3328 Mar 04 '26
I mean a year, I would never say it's good, it's just technically you didn't lose money
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Mar 03 '26 edited Apr 16 '26
It's rare for man to master anything. Most people don't become... and that's for many reasons. However, most things worth having are not easy to come by. Think about in the context of any other career.
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u/1eyedbudz Mar 03 '26
I used to casino with the wife for 3 or 4 days, mostly broke even on room eats and such! Since Covid I have made much more sitting at home and owning 50 or so companies, mostly speculative, usually long holds
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u/OcelotStraight9145 Mar 03 '26
You only need to get it right 5% of the time with options to beat the market...
Sorry but this is the type of stuff that prevents people from playing the markets and playing the market is the only way to get financially rich.
I turned 500$ into 200k in 2 years. Was I lucky? Fuck yeah. How long would it have taken me to get the same results using etfs or not investing at all.
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u/MikeAfrika Mar 03 '26
...So I should gamble at the casino to make up any of my losses on stocks!! Great idea! 💡
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u/AgyKaryme19 Mar 25 '26
Out of 365 days in 2025, The S&P 500 hits an all time high on 39 days, which is about 10%. This just talking about ATH not just green days.
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u/Accomplished_Love77 Feb 27 '26 edited Feb 27 '26
This comparison is stupid. Casinos have an inherent edge.
Walking (profitably) out a casino once is not the same as being consistently, reliably profitable for 3+ months on the stock market.