Freeyouchains2 ok if I assume you are investing taxable accounts instead, then it starts to make sense. Based on personal experience, this strategy does work well for me, however everyone else says that they lose money.
So maybe it works or maybe I have just been lucky and that my time is coming when I will get socked with huge losses and then the hardcore Vanguard, Bogel index-only crowd will laugh in my face. I have noticed that they are an aggressive group and don't tolerate other opinions on investing very much. They will probably show up at my house as a mob and give me a beat down and smear "A Random Walk down Wallstreet" in my face.
Since its your money, you can do whatever you want with it just beware that you are at risk of losing money.
You are a very insightful person! And are open minded, and know you can always control your money and your life as long as you don't fear. Fear keeps the other's in the dark cave watching the shadow puppets entertain them on the walls, as they don't noticed they are shackled with chains to the ground until someone punches them in the face!
Tooo many people fear losing their job, then they "give up" when it happens like they have no other options of finding money/hour or purpose for life, and/or like it was 100% their fault, though the CEO just needed to increase this quarter's earnings quickly.
Tooo many people fear losing their money, then they "give up" when it happens like they can never make money again.
Tooo many people fear being bored in retirement/Financial Independence, thus they imprison themselves in a cubicle, truck seat, boat on the seas, for 9 hours a day or much more until they die, which is a torturous way to live, if they don't get happiness from their jobs that is (1%).
Thus too many people fear creating things from scratch or growing things or investing in things, or taking some risk on planting a tree in a decent location and trying new strategies; because they have been told all their lives to spend money, work hard for others, pay your taxes without question, or follow what the government orders you to do without question. Sometimes you take government incentives thinking it's best for you, like $20,000 sign on bonuses for Marine Corp front line of the battlefield. If you die they collect death taxes on all your assets, shrug their shoulders, and carry on without you. There are other examples of this i won't go into.
Those that are paid "experts" on trading, usually trade with chains of "being fired" if they don't make a quota from the floor man up to the CEO position. They are under the Company's or Investors of the Company's chains and will.
My point is, 90% of investors don't try to invest in short term trading because they fear losing money and because the Government, currently, taxes their success (if not in an IRA), almost as if they know you will succeed big time and they must limit your success with more taxes and more policies, least you become greater than the government in your efforts.
[MMM and Jacob at
http://www.earlyretirementextreme.com/ are great at saving lives of people who aren't really living, especially at work; and those same people usually need a goal to escape the working/taxed/spending system, that the government and greedy depend on for survival!]
@ matchewed. A great financial blogger to follow on business valuation analysis is Dividend Mantra at
http://www.dividendmantra.com/ plus in some of the posts by Jacob at ERE. Jacob's book is very inspiration to anyone interested the power of FI and how to get there extremely early. And he is planning on writing an investing guide book after his fun chosen job opportunity as a quantitative analyst to broaden his knowledge of investing, because he doesn't need the cash to live.
FI bloggers like MMM have their own investing strategies and diversifications. As we all do. I am just suggesting 1-5% of your stache invested in the stock markets short term strategies and/or in your own businesses, may help to increase your stache greatly, as well as your market investing and business skills.