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Yes, an MBA will not help with actual trading. I took graduate level courses in futures and options as part of my MBA (after I had been trading for a while), and I easily had more practical market experience than the textbook and the instructor. An MBA would be useful for the management side of a trading firm, but not actual trading.
I have been seeing you here in this forum for a few days now and I am wondering what you are doing here. You are from Mumbai, you are 19 years old and you make big talk that you want to become a full time trader. So far, so good. I have in my younger and even older years also always knocked time to time big sayings and that's ok from my point of view. So never mind. But nevertheless:
May I ask how you have earned your money in India until today?
May I ask you why you ask for the most expensive and mostly only the cheapest trading rates in the USA?
There are excellent traders in India. There are also excellent platforms in India where, if you are lucky, you can get in touch with such people if you ask the right questions.
Have you ever steered your musings in this direction, as Nifty and Banknifty are also great markets to trade? When I was living in Asia, analyzes on those markets where done daily and so I can assure you the great quality to make money in this markets.
I wish you only the best when it comes to solutions that help you.
Well, I do trade nifty and banknifty as well on sim accounts, but I'm a student so I have my classes in the morning so I don't really get to trade the markets live, to get that live market experience, I started sim trading the s&p emini as it's evening here when the US markets open which is also how I found this forum.
As for looking for traders in India, there are very few day traders here (who are also good educators), most of the people I've seen focus more on swing and positional trading, which is nice, but not what I'm looking for, I really want to study trading using market profiles and footprint charts and don't see a lot of people who use these methods for trading in India, I made some money by buying good companies on dips during the initial covid crash, so I was thinking of using that money plus some money I've saved on my own get proper day trading education.
I've been studying the free resources too but I guess my mind is having a tough time accepting it, as usually, you don't really get anything good for free.
Now I didn't mean to make "big talk" about becoming a day trader, as statistically, I'm definitely more likely to fail than succeed, but even if a few people out there can do it, I don't see why I can't if I put in the efforts, so far I'm really enjoying observing the markets, and it would be a great thing if I can get good enough to do it full time as well, I've spent the past 1 year studying a lot about trading, and I know I'm not even 1% of the way through, but I don't mind it, since I'm having fun doing it.
Stay away from all courses... books and resources are plenty and much less expensive. I would recommend picking one instrument (stock,futures contract, currency pair) and learn everything about it put the screen time in pick a time frame that you can make sound decisions and not feel rushed and trade small. And do that everyday for a year with a strategy that suits your personality (plenty of free strategies available) at the end of the year you will have gained more experience and knowledge than any course could have taught you. Also I would recommend just trading tiny amounts instead of paper trading feeling the real emotion will help you see if trading is really for you.
most trading educators just teach trading . they can not do any . they are just playing trader . software vendors as well . you can find almost every book every written on trading free on file sharing sights . there are thousands of free webinars on this sight and online . there is more content already created than you can go through in your lifetime . there is no reason to pay for it .