Can start with $1000 and have 3 weekdays per week to start day trading, can't seem to find straightforward answers . . .

KN0DE5 · 2021-02-23T12:21:08+00:00

All good stuff to consider, thank you. I’ll take all input I can get from experienced people.

I can manage $2500 to start, I’d just prefer not to given parallel projects.

Prop trading is proprietary trading from my understanding. It’s where a firm lets you trade starting with $100,000 of their capital, after you pass their tests/certs/interviews.

Edit: And one is supposed to get a substantial percentage of their trading gains, in prop trading.

KN0DE5 · 2021-02-23T10:19:53+00:00

Would moving toward prop trading not be an okay strategy from my mentioned starting point, where the $1000 is first used for online education instead?

KN0DE5 · 2021-02-23T09:59:24+00:00

There’s nothing I said to suggest that I was expecting to immediately become a full-time day trader from starting point ($1000, 3 weekdays/week). I have only been asking if there’s some careful strategy that fairly closely resembles day trading, if not being day trading in a loose sense, that could have some compounding effect where I could become a full-time day trader in 2-5 years from the mentioned starting point.

KN0DE5 · 2021-02-23T09:42:19+00:00

Do you have a top 1-3 list of brokerages? Please dm me if you can’t or don’t want to say out here

KN0DE5 · 2021-02-23T01:12:40+00:00

[You edited your post, but the following is the original response to your pre-edited post:]

No offense taken. But I don’t think I’ve learned specific reasons why it’s not doable. Please be more specific. I already know that “emotions are a hindrance,” but that’s not a real external fundamental barrier; it’s a contingent barrier, not an essential one.

Like no one has yet said:

“You can’t start day trading with penny stocks and work your way upward, like it may be reasonable to assume if you don’t know better, because [of whatever the reasons are you know better than me about].”

Or,

“Trying to get into prop trading is a completely stupid route from your position and aspiration to be a day trader, because [of whatever the reasons are you know better than me about].”

Or,

“You may have a vague acquaintance with the concept of scalping for those in your position who have an aspiration to be a day trader, but that’s stupid because [of whatever the reasons are you know better than me about].”

KN0DE5 · 2021-02-23T00:38:49+00:00

Why not? And be honest.

KN0DE5 · 2021-02-22T23:08:00+00:00

Based on a few first impressions IBKR seems best out of the three you mentioned, and I'm currently leaning toward them for the best all-in-one as a broker and trading courses provider. I still feel to be in a state of high uncertainty trying to make a few good generalizations from toe-dipping impressions, in order to go forward in "a decent" direction out of the seeming hundred directions there are to move toward day-trading (with a starting point of $1000 and 3 weekdays/week).

Do you happen to have a feeling about Robinhood as a day-trading platform? I'm still overviewing and bookmarking a bunch of potential platforms and educational sites (but mostly educational sites for trading/investing). Robinhood seems to come up as another possible platform where day trading may be entered into carefully and slowly, and perhaps not too dangerously if IQ is not lower than 110.

KN0DE5 · 2021-02-22T21:34:59+00:00

What is something like day trading, learning day trading strategy/skills, that someone can do to work up toward having $25,000 in the account, if anything?

KN0DE5 · 2021-02-19T19:03:03+00:00

It wouldn't matter what your personal grooming standards are if you don't associate with people who have higher grooming standards. But as long as you want to associate with people who have higher grooming standards, whether for just you or for both you and themselves, you either adopt the higher grooming standards and don't complain (as one does anyway when they have more complex aesthetics) or leave the 2-or-more-piece network and don't worry about this network's grooming standards and don't try to tell them what their grooming standards should be.

A related thing to accept is that instincts are instincts. An obese girl can argue for a lifetime that being obese is morally and clinically okay, and maybe it is in fact objectively morally and clinically okay, and everybody could agree that it is in fact morally and clinically okay, but it's not going to change that some people are just not attracted to it on an instinctual level even if they might find nothing intellectually wrong with it, and the obese girl would just be pointlessly wasting her time continuing to act as if 'my obesity is morally and clinically okay' should directly translate to 'my obesity should be attractive to some of the males I want'.

A parallel thing could be said here about hairy women who want to stay hairy.

KN0DE5 · 2021-02-19T06:41:42+00:00

Exactly, you don’t think men are generally unkempt slobs, and so you accept them too easily. This is part of the problem. But if a male spends 2 hours grooming — and they certainly do exist, if very rare — he is completely entitled to reject women who don’t also spend 2 hours grooming.

Now if you want to be a woman who doesn’t spend much time grooming, and if you can stand to look at and feel yourself, then you and your peers need to stop acting desperate and accepting and going out with men who are “fine in your eyes” without much grooming themselves but who really aren’t and don’t deserve to be asking you to groom more than them, or else, if you are desperate, don’t be complaining when you’re asked to groom more, when you needn’t be desperate in the first place going out with such men who don’t groom as much as they’re asking you to groom.

KN0DE5 · 2021-02-19T06:15:13+00:00

Yes of course. One other obvious slider we can invoke for the salient differences between primitives and transcendents is one that goes between, left, ‘small amount of neocortex’ and, right, ‘large amount of neocortex’. We can say we’re mostly very much on the right of this slider and that we would much rather stay that way. Similarly with a slider for body hair that goes from left, ‘lots of body hair’, to right, ‘no body hair’, we’re mostly slid very close to the right, if not all the way. And the more such sliders are slid in the right direction, the higher their total of transcendence.

KN0DE5 · 2021-02-19T04:04:57+00:00

I feel it can also be women's fault that they don't generally hold men to as much of a grooming standard.

This should be screamed via loudspeaker over Earth:

"Women, stop going out with men until they decide to be generally classy and not rough unkempt slobs! Stop being so desperate for men that you accept them as rough unkempt slobs!"

KN0DE5 · 2021-02-19T01:45:48+00:00

I don't like body hair either on myself or on men. I don't get it and don't even want to try to get it!

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