Are their any exchanges where you can trade real estate derivatives to capture price variations outside the stock market? 

I have experience in Stock investing and FOREX trading but I am completely new to real estate wholesaling.

However, this is obviously a grey area and it's why the IRS has special tax rules for day traders of stock and real estate professionals.  

Ok also looking into the regular stock market now, no longer forex because it's too risky

We are both in finance (trader and analyst) and are not enjoying the corporate world at all, so we are looking to build a real estate business instead.

It is unreasonable to think they are all going to home runs.A swing trader in the market will make 20 trades a week (as an example) -- 9 will be up, 9 will be down, and 2 will be push trades.... so how they earn any money? 

Day traders were the 15 minute heros of the Dot Com boom and bust.

The chart above may be confusing, but it is actually rather simple—it is the screen that our Head Trader and I look at all day in the land of Mortgage Backed Securities.

Another concern for those short term metal traders waiting for gold to shoot to the moon: The IMF could flood the market with gold and knock the price down.

I certainly have no clue where prices are going and even many of the best traders have gotten this cycle wrong.