The retail trader has no chance against bot trading.
I see that Renaissance, one of the US hedge funds, made BILLIONS of dollars last year - during the financial downturn, no less - due to their sophisticated use of algorithmic computer trading. Their boss is a Maths Professor who devised a lot of the algorithms and wrote the programs.
So the chance of you and I making decent dollars out of the market are significantly less. Apart from long-term investing in companies like TOX, that is.... ;)
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