Around 5% of day traders are profitable. Even for those who do make money, the juice may not be worth the squeeze. Another paper by Barber and Odean found that the average active investor reliably underperforms the broader market. "Very few people make money, even fewer make enough to make a real living of it."
The war does have massive impacts, even to average citizens in other parts of world that is not inflicted by the tragical brutalities. It seems, so far, isolated, but we are not, that’s why the government issued new round of support measures for the public. And the impact on the stock market and oil prices are much more pronounced [Facepalm]
@L.Lim:Isn't that wonderful, any rally could be cut in half by another disruption, but the rally came in so hard and so quickly that investors might just want that to scrape out good value. I felt that the war had minimal impact, the stock market was waiting on any "good news" from the man in the white house, so it could start climbing. By the time the ceasefire was agreed, it felt like nothing too significant happened since everyone already was recovering. I wonder if the ceasefire does not hold, and the reaction of the market, would there even be a big slide The Hormuz chokehold will indeed not be going away any time soon, so what are we really rebounding so quickly for...
Ranging from $70 to $200~, valuation is indeed an art, rathern than science. Recent AMD, or even Microsoft pullback demonstrated that, even if the fundamentals are strong, you gotta meet or beat the Wallstreet expectations 🤣