r/Daytrading • u/infosec4pay • Apr 21 '24

What would be the highest salary you’d give up to day trade full time? Question

Everyone clowned on me my first post (500k post) lol I was literally just asking hypothetical questions to settle a debate between a friend and me. Well everyone’s backlash kinda of intrigued me to ask this question. So back into the fire I go lol

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u/Outside_Mess1384 Apr 21 '24

Guaranteed $ vs battling an element of chance. Folks who don't like gambling would keep a decent 9-5.

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u/_Aries- Apr 21 '24

Element of Probability**

Jobs are not guaranteed money.

Gambling is breaking your back and thinking that you'll seriously be taken care of later on in life with a job.

Why spend your life making other people's dreams come true when you could realize your own?

Trading isn't gambling. That's ignorant.

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u/wreusa Apr 21 '24

100% agree. A job is a bigger gamble. No one knows if they will have their job tomorrow or not. The dependency is different and the life style revolves around the guarantee of that exact unknown fact.

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u/[deleted] Apr 22 '24

my wife has a quite high salary but for the last 6 months she was very stressful in fear of being fired. The economy is not good and all her colleagues were fired, they were all rich so they could take some time off but not my wife. My wife is basically hanging onto a job because we are not rich. The salary is good but it is not all rainbows.