Day trading, for most people, is a disaster. One study of retail currency traders found 70% lose money every quarter on average, and lose it all within 12 months. Another, in Brazil, found 97% of equity futures traders who traded more than 300 days lost money.
They studied the first five minutes, from 2016 to 2023 — which had two bear markets and abnormal volatility — and examined the TQQQ TQQQ, +0.07%, an exchange-traded fund that aims to triple the daily move of the Nasdaq 100 index. The results: an annualized return of 46%, versus an annualized 15% gain for the QQQ QQQ, +0.01% over the same time period. They also say it produced returns uncorrelated with the broader market.
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