That's some higher risk though at that price. On a 10k risk that's 20
shares, at best case 3k transaction process. But higher risk of a bigger
loss. I'm not risk tolerant

On Fri, Apr 9, 2021, 9:28 PM Craig House <[email protected]> wrote:

> I still buy and sell ethereum almost daily.  It’s over 2k now but can vary
> 100-150$ per day. If you time it right you can make a lot or miss out on a
> lot if you don’t.  Since March 1 I’ve made 43% on my money and feel like I
> can double my money in 3-6 months   Probably could do the same by just
> holding onto it rather than trading daily but it wouldn’t be as much fun
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Apr 9, 2021, at 21:13, Steve Jones <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > 
> > So I've been dicking around with the market, trivial amount, 5 shares
> per stock. If I had put a lot in Tesco would have done me well.
> >
> > I have 100 shares of this penny stock, it's a gold backed
> cryptocurrency, I watch it bounce a lot throug the day and its followed the
> same trend for its couple months existence.
> >
> > So I set up a paper account and was dicking today with another penny
> stock. Set buy and sell limits with about 10,000 in the play money. It made
> 4k in 2 rounds. It's just a couple pennies it fluctuates but at 500,000
> shares that adds up.
> >
> > I told the wife and of course she wants me to cash in something and play
> with real money.
> >
> > I'm more inclined to see how the play money performs, I have some limits
> on the crypto stock that we will see what happens on monday morning.
> >
> > I'm thinking to myself there has to be a catch. If it was that simple,
> everybody would be doing it.
> >
> > You guys who mess around probably went through a time where you tried
> that kind of trading, and none of you talk about it now, so I assume the
> catch is pretty straight forward.
> >
> > I was looking at my IRA, it's done pretty good at 17 percent. But just
> taking 10k of it and playing with this at 1 percent per trading day, that
> would be another 27k annually.
> >
> > I do see why day traders need low latency though, but with limits I dont
> see it has a lot of impact.
> >
> > What's to stop a guy from spending an hour or 2 every morning with a
> relatively small amount in the big scheme of things like 10k trading to 1
> percent or better and then going to work? 100 bucks a day or more doesnt
> seem terrible for an hour.
> >
> >
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