it depends. a lot of the time i scalp all day. many other times i have large positions that require many trades to sell out. so if i have say 100k of a position, i would make 5 trades of 20k each instead of tanking the stock with a 100k market order, etc. All depends. There are many different styles of trading: position/swing, investing, scalping. Unfortunately scalping is tedious and commission costly yes. But in unpredictable market conditions, it's a job and hard work during the slow times, scalping for small gains. It's like is $50/$100 a scalp worth it? Doesn't seem like much to make $50/trade or even $25/trade, but if you can do 10 of those scalp trades an hour, that starts to add up, etc. but that's the thing, trading is a full time job for me. So i can be lazy and sit around or i can just work and work. fortunately i enjoy what I do and don't mind...
Drink my Kool-Aid...
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