Dear Suren ,..
I dont know much about u but i personally dont agree with your views.
simply welcome to all seniors trading room ... and see how to benefit from market using simple trading methods.
http://www.traderji.com/equities/18953-time-stick-my-neck-out-nifty-7300-a.html
May be u would have not meet people benefiting from intraday trades. But u should ask every intraday traders on which base they do trade?
do they keep their emotions away while trading ?
do they keep stops and targets?
do they have any good trading method?
No offense but as far as i know about the traders ( or even investors ), 95% people are not at all educated with markets. Neither technically nor fundamentally.
They just simply keep on following what Tipsters , Analysts on TV newspapers and magazines & friends are bluffing out. ( i m not saying everyone is wrong who r professionally doing it ). But one thing is there , there is no alternate of SELF LITERACY.
Now as u said no day traders are making profits ,.. so u mean to say all the investors are making profits ? or positional traders are making profits ???
Simply do a survey, Ask those investors, swing traders who had got stuck their money @ 21k levels, when all the BLUFFERS were targeting sensex will break 25k,30k. Ask them their value of current portfolio. I know one of my friend personally was having portfolio of 4 crore @ 21k levels. now its near 2 crore (with all fundamentally sound companies).
the conclusion is simple ,.. any trade placed without discipline is a loosing trade. Follow the system, be disciplined and you can 100% earn from Any time frame.
In my opinion , Intraday trader is very very very very very very short term investor who invests ( or shorts ) for a small time frame i.e. from 5 mins to 5 hrs.
Regards,..
Darsh