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You do? Where? I can name all the most profitable shops and every single one of them is staffed by ex tradfi prop shop guys. edit: actually no, I can think of a couple counter-examples of successful firms started by people with no professional trading background, but it's exceedingly rare. PS: My original comment came off as exceedingly harsh and am sorry for that. OP if you read this mb, just got kind of triggered f…
You don't have to consistently generate alpha to make bucks as a small time trader. Even a simple strategy like buying dogecoin everytime elon tweeted about it was a sureshot way to makr money in the crypto market
Plus, the whole basket of assets going consistently up over time doesn't hurt.