They will not see eye to eye as trading is an active role to make a living and in fact; it is just another part-time job in disguise while investing can be periodic active and more often inactive with nothing much to react.
To be able to survive as retail investors from cash flow for a living; this is what Uncle8888 has observed from the Cyber world on those who have made it. Their account size!
In investing, our account size really matters! - CW8888
How to increase our account size to that level of adequacy to deliver meaningful cash flow to fund ......
Boston Consulting Group in Oct 2015 published in its Global Wealth Report that there are 188,000 millionaire households in Singapore as at 2014. It qualified a millionaire as having assets of worth more than a million USD sans the roof asset. One USD is worth SGD 1.26 then. That means one in seven households are millionaires in Singapore. It also stated it was 150,000 households in Singapore in 2010.
Despite the USD currency appreciation now, I believe the numbers still remain about the same.
If there is one in seven households a millionaire, it is no Everest but BT Timah to climb and enough left to jog one round at the top! Haha…