Stock Markets Exposed
which is ore profitable in stock investing intraday or f and o?
i am doing stock investing business besides working in indian railways. i am retired exservice junior warant officer from indian air force and served 20 years in forces. after coming out i ahve worked for carier airconditioners for one year and then in 2000 i joined railways as loco pilot.
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- I'm going to assume the question is "Which is more profitable in stock inversting, intraday trading or fundamentals & analysis?". If thats not the question, just ignore the answer. Personally, for all the scepticism and mockery intraday trading (ie day traders) get, I've seen a few that do very, very well; at least for awhile. Problem is after being successful they get a bit lazy; the stock market changes and their techniques do not work as well; or their stake gets to big and they now are not nimble enough to keep up the great returns; or something else goes wrong and they just lose their edge - but sometimes they get it back later. Also, to succeed and day trading you have to be willing to pretty much sit in front of a computer much of the day and do nothing but monitor your stocks, plus do all sorts of related activities with discipline. A boring proposition so many, but some like it, and if you are good at it it does pay well. For fundamentals and analysis there are also lots of trick and traps, but if your selection critieria is sound you can probably make your picks and then put them on auto-pilot for awhile (though learning how to make those best selections can itself take a long time). You can also invest larger and larger amounts with much less problems (look at Warren Buffet, then imagine how easy it would be to day trade 100 billion dollars), but I really don't think the returns are quite as good as for the best day traders and its also somehow not as exciting. Anyhow, whichever one you choose there is a massive learning curve for both of them, so expect to have mediocre or worse results for a long time before everything works out (and read, read, read on your choice to shorten the curve). Get really good at either of those and you can do very well (but quite frankly for every one person who emerges as a good trader or investor, there are many others that fail - you need to really work at it to make it). Best of luck.
