“Unlike investing, where the focus is on creating wealth (e.g. dividends), traders make money by catching short-term moves for quick gains. Trading, like poker, can be described as a zero-sum game. If you are winning then someone else must be losing. This battlefield aspect to the markets is something that the novice trader disregards at his/her own peril, since humans sit behind those trading screens and you can bet that they will do everything in their power to take your money, even if that means bending the rules in their favor.”

– Agustin Silvani