Fighting the odds9 Nov 2020 17:40
Making some decent brass when trading the market is a tough call. The movement in equities can be very volatile and unpredictable. Share price reaction to news, inconsistent. One thing is for sure is that certain persons have more information than the standard personal investor.
Knowing news before the man in the street can make you money, as either trader, shorter, broker or market maker. Great advantage can be taken and a strong influence on the market can be made, knowing news early and influencing how a ‘herd’ will react.
Private investors, well they rely on their sound research and reading. They rely sometimes on quite a bit of luck with their timing of trades. Really if compared to ‘the informed’, they stand little chance in making a return and in fact most often lose. Their losses end up as gains in others pockets.
Private investors in my experience benefit from and value highly the input, opinions and assistance of other like-minded individuals. These are now most commonly shared on bulletin boards and I can state that some recent gains personally made, have resulted from the sharing of info on such boards. These give us who take note of the honest brokers on these boards, a little leg-up.
Not surprising then that ‘the informed’ would wish to switch them off at critical times? Oh and by the way, they will misreport trades, reveal trades late and mark trades as ‘unknown’. Low and behold they will also shut down broking systems to disadvantage you at optimum trading times.
My profit is in a V8 sat gleaming in the garage. But soon I will be massively out of this charade.
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