TheaDesign Intro Seeking Alpha is all about long-term investing and compound interest. Short-term trading (especially day trading when using either stock or options) does not fall into their wheelhouse and for understandable reasons. Take a short-term options trader for example and his corresponding activity in a given year. If we take a worst-case scenario, this person could easily make 1000+ trades a year and still report a net loss for a year depending on trading conditions. The lesson to be learned here is two-fold and should never be disregarded. For one, short-term options or speculators are trading their time for money or profit. This profit is not guaranteed and may even turn into a net loss at the end of the year. All things being equal though, the speculator is primarily working for money or currency, which would be a better term which is a big mistake (when one has an alternative) in my opinion in 2023. Why? Because the reported inflation rate of 6 to 8% is well below the REAL inflation rate and this is key. Therefore, a typical speculator would most likely need to see an annual nominal gain of something like 12 to 15%+ nowadays […]
K&X Design and Investment Technology, LLC
Invest The Invisible Impact
K&X Design and Investment Technology, LLC
Invest The Invisible Impact
