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Does financial market history even matter anymore? Many pundits say no, since a new wave, of low-to-zero-cost trading, and another wave of high-quality market information has “democratized” investing so much so that the retail public is just as informed, or certainly can be, as multibillionaire investors.

Nathan Bachrach and Amy Wagner Published 3:16 p.m. ET July 29, 2020 Allworth Financial Advisors discuss how credit utilization works. Cincinnati Enquirer Question: Connie in Colerain Township: My son is 22 and wants to start investing. But I don’t have much experience with it, so I don’t think I can help him much. Can you…

Grounded planes, virtual education, online weddings/graduations/dates/doctor visits; our world has changed in every way imaginable. But as a business-ish publication, one of the changes sticks out more than others—the move of many amateur investors to the day trading model.

day trading (©Adam Nowakowski) Day trading is designed for advanced traders. As a day trader, you will be executing random trades in the market to earn more money but if you carefully analyze the core factors of the market, you will notice that you have a lot to learn from the market.

Advertisement The other day, an old friend of mine asked me an interesting question about day trading. “Rob, you’ve worked on Wall Street trading desks, right? What advice would you give to someone thinking about getting started as a day trader?”

Robinhood Robinhood made more from individual first-quarter trades than its legacy rivals, according to Piper Sandler research. The discount brokerage made $0.0024 for every stock trade, beating out TD Ameritrade, Charles Schwab, and E-Trade. Equities trades netted Robinhood more than $31 million, second to TD Ameritrade’s nearly $73 million windfall. Charles Schwab and E-Trade brought…

One time when I was sitting in my college dormitory, I heard a whoop of joy from down the hall. My dorm mate announced that he had just made US$500,000 (S$696,000) trading in the stock market, after having invested only a few thousand dollars.

Almost all traders are aware of the widely publicized statistic that “95% of traders lose money.” When you drill deeper, research implies that this number is likely higher. The profession chews up and spits out aspiring traders at an astounding rate.

Thousands of young, inexperienced people have become day traders in stocks during the recent pandemic, thinking they’ll quickly make fortunes. They won’t and they are being duped, manipulated and exploited.

Many Americans, stuck at home because of the coronavirus pandemic, are putting federal stimulus checks and other money into online stock trading. Several leading brokerage firms have reported a surge in new accounts since much of the U.S. went into lockdown in March, and the stock market’s sharp recovery since the March lows, coupled with…