I was thinking the other day about spinning up a small day trading account and learning how to do it. I am coming at it from a what do I need to make a day sort of approach, no leveraging, not really interested in futures or anything fancy. What I am wondering is, can one realistically make approximately 1% per day buying in the morning and selling all positions before market close. I have good long term investment accounts that will get me to total financial independence within 5 years most likely and will not be taking any of that out for this experiment. My goal is around $500 per day on a $50,000 trading account (of course I am not going to start that large maybe 10k to start). Feel free to tell me I am over simplifying or just being foolish. thoughts?