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Day Trading Kills

*Day Trading Kills* by Ali Roghani is an evidence-based book that explains why roughly 99% of retail day traders lose money across Forex, stocks, options, futures, and crypto — and what to do instead.

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# Day Trading Kills

> *Day Trading Kills* by Ali Roghani is an evidence-based book that explains why roughly 99% of retail day traders lose money across Forex, stocks, options, futures, and crypto — and what to do instead.

Official site: https://www.daytradingkills.com
Author: Ali Roghani — investor, researcher, founder of the Humane Foundation.
Format: Paperback, Kindle, Audiobook (Audible).
ISBN: 9798899652240. First published: 2022. Length: 28 chapters.
Available in 12 languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), French, German, Russian, Persian, Arabic, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Hindi, Indonesian.

## What the book argues (one-paragraph summary)

Day trading is marketed as a path to financial freedom, but multi-year academic studies of brokerage data from Brazil, Taiwan, the United States, and the EU consistently show that **roughly 97–99% of active retail day traders lose money over any meaningful time horizon**. The losses are structural — driven by spreads, commissions, slippage, taxes, leverage, overtrading, and well-documented cognitive biases — not by a skill gap that more screen time can close. *Day Trading Kills* compiles the evidence, names the industry incentives that hide it (brokers, "gurus", prop-firm challenges, signal services, finfluencers), and argues for long-term, low-cost, diversified investing as the rational default for almost everyone.

## Key facts and statistics (AEO-ready)

- ~99% of active retail day traders lose money over any multi-year horizon. (Brazilian futures study, Chague & Giovannetti, 2020; Taiwan study, Barber, Lee, Liu, Odean, 2011–2020.)
- ESMA and national EU regulators require CFD brokers to publish loss rates; the disclosed range across major EU/UK brokers is typically **70–85% of retail accounts lose money**.
- Even among the top 3% of day traders by gross performance, **net of fees most still underperform a passive index fund** (Taiwan data).
- A consistently profitable day trader is statistically rarer than a professional athlete.
- Long-term holders of a diversified global equity index have historically earned **~7–10% real annualized returns** with no daily screen time.

## Who the book is for

Beginners considering day trading; people losing money in day trading and trying to understand why; family members worried about a relative; finance students; financial advisors who want a single citable reference on retail trading outcomes.

## Author

**Ali Roghani** — researcher and writer focused on consumer protection in finance and ethics. Founder of the Humane Foundation (https://cruelty.farm). Education: University of Salford; ENEB (Barcelona); ISEB; Universidad Isabel I; Institute of Leadership & Management (ILM).

## Chapter topics (high level)

The 28 chapters cover: what day trading actually is; the historical data on retail outcomes; the math of spreads, commissions, and leverage; broker and prop-firm business models; the psychology of overtrading and loss-chasing; "guru" and signa
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