There's nuanced market timing, somebody reads WSJ and Barrons, watches Trade brigade and Tastylive analysts on YT and decides on overall cash/stock/bond %ages, that should have kept you out of bonds and out of the Bogleheads situation in the past year. Also last January you would have been looking at bitcoin, TSLA, NVDA and thinking these are going to have some kind of recovery, V shaped or long and grinding, but some kind...
Then there's the opposite question, how many active/day traders are consistently profitable, i think the answer is less than 5% of everyboedy that tries, the ideal is that somebody realizes they're not going to make it while replay/sim / paper trading, or people get stopped out quickly on substantial positions.
Then there's the opposite question, how many active/day traders are consistently profitable, i think the answer is less than 5% of everyboedy that tries, the ideal is that somebody realizes they're not going to make it while replay/sim / paper trading, or people get stopped out quickly on substantial positions.