I was curious about how many SWEs jump into equity mkts for trading instead of investing. Do any of you folks have actually made any profit? I've worked as a quant researcher in the past and from my experience as well as my company head's perspective it's almost impossible to make money via trading for retail traders. Mid frequency strategies work because we use to play on very large volumes such that the law of large numbers comes in our favour. Individual traders trade on extremely low volume and probably strategies would not work for them. Even if somebody draws out a company's financials, it's very difficult to know when would the stock reach its fair value. Any equity profit maker would like to rebut my understanding? #personalfinance #investments
How much annual returns you get on your deployed capital ?
Depends on strategy to strategy...60% would be a ballpark number
You are already earning way more than equity investors and traders.