Retail traders beat institutions because they're small enough to exploit edges like Opening Range Breakout and Post-Earnings Announcement Drift that big players can't touch. Success requires systematic strategies, rigorous study, and a disciplined mindset.
As a retail, you have one advantage. You're small. You don't have huge capitals to pour in the market, okay? Huge institutional investor pay a lot of money to trade because of transaction cost, because they're so big. Because you're small though, you can take advantage of edges that institutional trader cannot take advantage of because of their sheer size. So you're small enough to milk a little bit of money out of this huge breast of financial markets. But in order to be able to do that, you need to be prepared, you need to be tough, you need to be resilient. And if you manage to do that with, with strategies like the Opening Range Breakout or with Post-Earnings Announcement Drift or with Systematic Premium Harvesting, all this stuff that is a structural edge, you can have a profit factor, you can have a performance better than buy and hold. You can. There's a small window of chance for all of us retail traders to succeed. But it's not gonna be probably in the way you're doing it now. So you need to study more, you need to get prepared, you need to look for information, you look— you need to look at every single episode in Chart Fanatics and Chart Academy, because finally we have a place where not just random gurus go, but people that have actual knowledge. And so thanks to people like Riz, you can have access to the best education in the world. So you should go through that specifically, vet who you're learning from, and And let's fucking go. I paid him to say that. Yeah. Thank you, Andreas.
