Thus traders borrow the yen to and buy the aussie dollar to profit from appreciation and the interest spread.

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This is a brokerage activity.The timing between note transactions can take a note holder from "investing" to brokering, by churning accounts, buying and selling as they might as a day trader in stocks.

"There's no rule of thumb that says: Buy three houses, you'll get capital gains; buy five and you're a dealer-trader.

I don't have a whole lot of insight into the market there, but in general, anywhere a Wegmans or Trader Joes or the like pops up, I tend to think of it as a positive sign for an area.

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

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.  

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.