Across the broad trading population:
Only 1–4% of day traders make money over the long term, while 72% lose money overall.
Reports of traders earning millions are outliers — the median profit among profitable traders is around $13,000,
suggesting survivorship bias in most success stories.
Even among the top 10% of funded traders,
earnings reach around $185,000 per year, with only 1% hitting the elite bracket near $269,500. |