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8 Reasons Why You Should Never Become A Day Trader

Everyone wants to be a daytrader. Let me tell you the best days. You get in at 9:25am. You make the trade your system tells you to make at 9:30. And by 9:45, the trade is done,

profitable, and you’re done for the day: $5,800 richer and happy about it. Even better are those stories of people who took $3,000 off of their credit card and “18 months later I had $25,351,011.45 in the bank!!!”  The first day I decided I was going to be a full-time daytrader, on May 18, 2001, I was so excited I couldn’t sleep at night. It was unbelievable to me how much money I was going to make.

But its all a lie to yourself. I still occasionally daytrade. And I’ve daytraded for other people. I’ve daytraded for hedge funds and for prop trading firms. Right before I started daytrading, an old-timer who had spent 40 years in the business told me, “Don’t do it. Why do you want to be involved with those people.” But I wanted to be “those people”. I was one of them. I was a TRADER.

Don’t do it.

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