Day trading is frikking hard work! You have to like sit in front of your monitors non-stop. Want to take a dump? Then you can end up losing a few grand!
I have a virtual portforlio for messing around on day trades and well, it's crapper than crap. Starting out with 10k investment, it now has 3.5k
However, I do have a real one for short-mediums that I started at the beginning of Sept which is doing 1.5% net, which isn't bad all things considering. There are some gems in there that should grow nicely over the coming year(s). However, it has to be said, that +1.5% is purely shored up by a single stock.... if I didn't have that, I'd be -10%.
There really are quite a lot of companies though that are totally shielded from this mayhem, so add them to a portfolio as a buffer allowing you more leverage to try some potential big earners
