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z l | Can you make a living by trading stocks? |
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John C
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Yes, it's entirely possible to make a living trading stocks in the stock market. How do you do this?
1. Study the market to figure out what are the most important factors in stock price. You'd be surprised to figure out that it's not necessarily what you originally thought.
2. Develop, or use, a trading system with an overall positive expectancy (ie net gains $ > net losses $). Remember the biggest key to successful trading is controlling your losses (accept that losses will happen, and prepare for them).
3. Practice with real money. Ideally, it's with an amount of money you can afford to lose first. You will need a primary source of income while you are learning and practicing.
4. Accurately figure out your monthly profits (% and $). If it isn't at least a consistent 1% per month, you should not be in the game. There are a bunch of dividend stocks that pay around this much, consistently. If you can't beat the return of these dividend stocks, don't trade, invest.
5. After you have developed a track record of consistent earnings by trading stocks, then start scaling up your risk capital (increase the amount of money you are trading with) so that the results can match or beat your primary income.
6. Spend the next few months trading with this additional capital to make certain your earnings are what you expect them to be. If they are, you are free to begin trading exclusively as your primary source of income.
Stock trading is not the easiest way to make a living, and only a small percentage of people who try are consistently successful, but it is rewarding. Do your homework and your legwork, approach it with discipline, and you might just find you're one of the few... |
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Dean A
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it takes a lot of money to ever get enough stocks to make a decent living, and even more luck |
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Wicked Mickey
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Of course, but beware there is truth in the old addage: "How do you make a small fortune in the market? Start with a large one." Best to make a living doing other things first, or use other peoples' money. |
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Cocoabutta98
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YES.. Its called a stock broker... |
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briefcandle
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In general, no. The exception being if you are a professional trader and are being paid to trade OPM (other people's money).
The reason is simple, markets are surprisingly efficient. That is true because big money investors (insurance companies and pension funds) will just about kill themselves to eke out even small profits on a stock.
Ever see the TV commercial (I think it's by Royal Bank of Scotland) where the guy just wins an auction for a piece of art and then immediately tries to sell it for more? The guy looks silly, of course, as he just finished paying the market clearing price. That's a very good example of what I mean. When you buy a stock, you just paid the highest price of anyone then bidding on the stock. And that includes the smart money big investors who have teams of PHDs and high-priced MBAs analyzing the company's prospects.
Don't fool yourself. In an up market, making money in the stock market is like throwing darts at a beachball; it's hard to miss. So, I am sure that someone will chime in with how they made tons of money in the market this past year. That's because it's been an up market, plain and simple.
In a down market, it is just the opposite. You better be throwing bullseyes. And if anyone says that they can predict an up market, just ask yourself, "why on earth would they be sharing that with me when they could be making tens of millions with Goldman Sachs or Morgan Stanley?"
I'll end this with a wonderful aphorism by Warren Buffet, "When you sit down at a table to play poker, if you can't tell within two minutes who the dummy is, well, then you know for sure." ;-) |
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sirtitan45
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Yes you can, but I don't think it should be done full time (unless you have a million shares of a stock like GE and write out of the money covered calls on a monthly basis on top of collecting the dividend).
It takes alot of research, I mean tons!
I would also like to comment on a previous answer, particularly: "The reason is simple, markets are surprisingly efficient. That is true because big money investors (insurance companies and pension funds) will just about kill themselves to eke out even small profits on a stock." - This is not true. As an example
Markets in my opinion are not efficient. They will at many times over and under estimate the true value of a company. Why do you think Buffet got so rich? Even if he didn't start with $100k that his friends and family gave him to invest, he still would of made it. |
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whatever
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It's not easy to be a day trader, but it's do-able. You make faster money (and larger profits) when you trade options (rather than stocks) but options are much more riskier. You should make sure you have a nice cushion of savings to fall back on and you should educate yourself before you jump into it, hopefully to minimize the mistakes you could possibly make. |
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Slog
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Yes. Yes, you can. |
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King Kong Jr.
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If you're on the top, manipulating them...yes. If you're a common jerk, you better talk to your wife. |
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ganesh n
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yes,you can |
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Herschel K
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Yes, easy. Just buy low and sell high. |
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barry_robbins_98
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Sure. But first you need to figure out how much you need to make. if you need $50,000, then you should only expect to make 10% on your initial money. so you should have $500,000 in investable money, at least.
you are going to need to do a lot of research. you should read 'The Little Book that Beats the Market', and probably a lot of other investing books, if you are going to do this fulltime. If you don't want to do this work, you probably won't be successful as an investor.
For investing ideas, you can see what the best investors are buying and selling at http://www.top10traders.com - this is a free site that lets you create a portfolio of stocks with $100,000 in "play" money. Each day the site ranks the best performing portfolios, so you can see how your picks perform compared to other investors. You can also read posts on investing from the best traders, as well as share your own investing ideas. There is also a charting feature , so you can see how your portfolio performs compared to the S&P 500.
Here are this month's best traders:
http://www.top10traders.com/Top10Standings.aspx
Good luck. |
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Frank Castle
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Yes. |
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