I'm a CPA with day trader clients- It has nothing to do with the trades, but the emotions going on. They want more faster, so they play riskier. At almost a dozen different firms in my career, nobody I ever worked with had ever heard of a day trader making money (except some will have one good year out of a lifetime of bombing out.) It's actually not that different from the casino: they want to prove they're smarter than everyone else. Spoilers....

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