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Can Day Trading be profitable for retail?

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 jefforey 
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Ok By Day-Trading I mean not more than 20 trades/Instrument a day. And all trades closed before market close.

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I want to be proved wrong. I want to believe that day-trading could be a bread-winner profession. Haven't seen any evidence that would suggest that but if you have then please share it here.

I would suggest you to do a proper research here in this forum.


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Also, I want to know if brokerages such Goldman Sachs pay commission, exchange fees on their prop trades?

Of course not they are The House.

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How about 1 or 2 trades a day max - maybe none? You can't get blood from a stone. Good trading opportunities don't show up 20 times a day. You can't force the market to pay you money by trading it more. It just doesn't work like that.

Stop worrying about what Goldman Sachs is paying in trade fees. It has no bearing on what you're trying to accomplish and they are not a broker like say Interactive Brokers, they're a multi-national investment bank and financial services company. They play by a different set of rules.

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Of course not they are The House.

So they don't pay any exchange fees either? Following is what retail pays:
Exchane fee : $1.18
NFA: $0.02
Commission to broker: $0.74
Total Per Side/Contract : $1.94
Round-Trip/Contract : $1.94 * 2 = $3.88

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Ok By Day-Trading I mean not more than 20 trades/Instrument a day. And all trades closed before market close.

It sounds like you want to scalp, again it depends on a lots of factors; Is it possible? As I said maybe.

Honestly in your case [and I do not want to discourage you] that does not have much understanding of the markets yet, scalping wont be profitable, but you can keep trying.

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It sounds like you want to scalp, again it depends on a lots of factors; Is it possible? As I said maybe.

Honestly in your case [and I do not want to discourage you] that does not have much understanding of the markets yet, scalping wont be profitable, but you can try.

I have tried many strategies some just having one trade per day to as many as 20 trades per day. I have tried trailing stoploss types and profit target types but all of them fail to return consistently. There are 2 or 3 great months but rest of the months give away the gains. But the caveat is that if the same strategy is run by Goldman Sachs then it will be immensely profitable. And this very fact raises my doubt. Is retail day-trading a myth created by Goldman Sachs and others to create liquidity for their own trades. After all even they need a counterparty.

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So they don't pay any exchange fees either? Following is what retail pays:
Exchane fee : $1.18
NFA: $0.02
Commission to broker: $0.74
Total Per Side/Contract : $1.94
Round-Trip/Contract : $1.94 * 2 = $3.88

Either you are being sarcastic or being naive.

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Either you are being sarcastic or being naive.

nah, these rates are the prevailing rates. https://eminifuturesbroker.com/commissions/

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nah, these rates are the prevailing rates. https://eminifuturesbroker.com/commissions/

Sure, good luck.

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Sure, good luck.

Why, what is so unrealistic about those rates. I think it is common knowledge.

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