Game is rigged for big players. You are gambling.
> best friend being a consistently profitable trader for the last 4 years didn’t help my skeptic case…
Last 4 years have been a boon for day traders. Any idiot with a decent sized portfolio and appetite for risk can make a living. However you are literally staring at graphs all day. Not very fun or rewarding or contributing much to society tbh.
For every winner out there, there are always hundreds of losers. Something something, “survivorship bias”
> one needs to just see numbers, statistics and trust on one’s strategy.
In a vacuum, this makes sense. But the market can remain irrational much longer than you can remain solvent.
Good luck with grinding out there. The current POTUS is a massive grifter, and driven by pseudo scientific neoclassical economic theory. So your day trading days will likely be sustainable for the next 4 years.