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Re:Almost 80% of Private Day Traders Lose Money by forgetsusername on Monday August 22, 2016 @10:55AM (#12336729)
>is it gambling with the best odds around?

You can expect, on average, to perform as well as the market, less your trading fees (which for most of us small-timers are ~$10 per round trip).

The problem is not knowing the odds (and hence expected earnings) ex-ante. That said, horse racing would probably be the best analogy.

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