While the top earners across the country might be corporate executives, some Wall Street stock traders give these professionals a run for their money in terms of annual salary compensation. If this last sentence describes how you are feeling, you are still going through the «Dreamer» phase of trading. Even if it’s only 99 percent, not percent certain that you’ll lose money attempting to day trade, why would you want to invest your money in an enterprise where the odds are against you? Again, day trading commodities or futures for a living will present its own challenges. Odds are it is going to take you a few years to get to this point.