So are retail investors truly no different from the people gambling their money on the lottery at the 7/11 every night?
Do any regular pedestrian middle class retail investors EVER actually earn enough to retire on? Or do anything meaningful with? If so.. what is THEIR secret sauce, since it's not HFT...
a)Members of political elite that get insider trading stock tips.
(illegal of course). The number of folks in usa congress and senate that become
'very lucky' investors after they join the rank, has to be amazing
b)Lucky
c) everybody else -- that looses.
Overtime, I would say last 30 years, the amount of 'influencing' retail investors to trap them into unreasonable actions had gradually increased.
So the percentage of folks going becoming the victims of the charade, will become higher.
Certainly if you concentrate on ( b ) you create the plausible deniability defense for the manipulators
Do any regular pedestrian middle class retail investors EVER actually earn enough to retire on? Or do anything meaningful with? If so.. what is THEIR secret sauce, since it's not HFT...