Well my father has turned into quite the successful day trader, and wanted more capital with which to trade (day trading in a Roth IRA scares me and excites me at the same time).

I keep a keen eye on the market as a trader first and real estate owner second.

From mid-level traders to the top, they feel like they are entitled to take hired sedans to work, eat lobster for lunch every day and receive gigantic year-end bonuses.

Talking to a CPA, she says that you only need to buy next property worth your profits from the sale(say for ex. $400K).

Just as there were a flood of stories of unscrupulous equity traders manipulating the market, supposedly causing the tipping of the market into the tailspin of 2008, I am constantly seeing new (ridiculous) stories and even laws revolving around specific, legitimate, real estate practices.

@Bryan NealI am an investor, not a trader.

It is a very competative sector and it varies a lot based on the commodity.If you really want to be a trader then most of the time it woudl make sense to get hired by a company that has an existing business.

There were hundreds of other traders with better/more battle-tested info that you could purchase reasonably.

I'm a trader by hobby.

I am an Energy Trader and my wife works in Tech, and real estate investing has been a part-time job of sorts for us for the past few years.We first got interested in real estate in 2011 because of the dramatic fall in prices that we saw across the country.