Two relevant questions which newbies may like to know. For retail who are already on their full time job, should they be trading, long-term investing or doing both? Retail trading is sexy! It is craftsmanship. You constantly improving on your trading skills by tuning, refining and re-tuning your trading parameters. You keep improving your Entries and Exits. When you made into 10% of retail traders who are successful and consistently profitable; and then you can go around to poke the other 90% of failed retail traders who turned into long wrong term investors who are investing long term to break even. Trading is sexy! Read? Kep Corp : Bought @ $9.64 for Round 95 Every now and then; you can  post how you made money from trading. Sexy. Right? ......