I saw a video of Jay Clayton who is the U.S. Attorney General over the southern district of New York and the hosts on CNBC as well as Jay say openly that the market is manipulated and it is like an unsaid secret on wall street. Jay confirms this is happening, they know about, and have open investigations. He said "We can't have markets that retail folks access, where their are forces that are defrauding them on a systemic basis, systematic fraud against a retail person, that is bad." Another confirmation agreeing with @mysterious-tomato-10057 that active trading is closer to gambling because of these insider market scams, and anyone that is not very prepared to monitor trades and manage their risk should just stay out of it. Baruch Hashem my contract for my new job has already been extended from doing good consistent work, and I am not paying as much attention to trading right now, aiming for either looking at trades at the beginning and end of the week, or the month not sure which timeline i prefer yet but still trading a little here and there.