>>38

I'm not a stock broker, but a friend of mine used to be. He was up to about 80k a year after 2 or 3 years in the business if I recall correctly.

I have no advice for aspiring stock brokers other than get your Series 7 and be persistent.

I almost became a Broker.

Then I met a Broker and a Prop Trader on the same day.

The Prop Trader trades the company's money. No clients or phone calls, and he usually gets 5-10% of whatever he makes with the companies money.

The Broker trades his client's money. He's on the phone 90% of the time dealing with people and their emotions. He usually only sells what the firm gives him to sell, and he only gets to keep 3 to 5 cents of each share's profits.

The Broker has to work five times as hard; but the Prop Trader has to be five times as smart.

Just learn everything you can about day trading until you're good at it.

It seems to me that if you have some income investing your own money is quite lucrative if you know what you are doing. My brother (who is a smart motherfucker) read through a couple of those mad money books and is enjoying very big gains off of 2-3 different stocks he watches.

Not a broker and not in stocks but I am a daytrader. US treasury options.

>>109

How did you get into that? How much start up capital did you need? How much risk is involved? Do you work for yourself or for a company? Do you need a license?

Do you need high maths to make money with this?
Im new.

This may be a dumb question but is the only way to get money from stocks is to sell them, or do you get like a check or something?

>>193
there are also dividends

SAGE has been used.

>>193

Pretty much everything is done digitally now.

I use to make a little money with penny stocks but you have to have a lot of patience and time. Most of them are scams so make a certain % before the scammers make that stock plummet. What I mean by a scam is that people will hype it up so lots of new investors buy and inflate it, then the people who got it dirt cheap at a million shares get out and you lose. I gave it up a few years ago because it's stressful and I never knew when to get out.