Guys thank you very much for your posts I am grateful particularly Vonasi who has been professional, supportive and helpful and I admire his outlook on life.
I am a business man and was just keen to get a feel for who makes a consistent profit day trading stocks alone (not swing, not position holding, not fx, indices etc) There is no point spending many hours learning to code or setting up a business which never leads to a profit so I think my question is totally appropriate and fair.
The stats maybe 95% failure overall for retail traders but I believe that they are much higher just for pure stock day trading as the broker fees and lack of high volatility on liquid shares which can be traded in large volume prevent long term profitability.
I simply have never heard of a pure retail stock day trader who is profitable in the long term.
I personally find that indices are much more profitable due to tighter spreads and easier to trade.
Thanks again
