>>1097238

Get MBA and CFA.
Ticket is ten grand for pink slips, hundred to swim with the sharks.

30k and an interactive brokers account.

Start with the basics (Day Trading for Dummies) and go from there. Read everything you can get your hands on, practice until you're profitable.

>>1097238
get really good at coding or statistics (preferably both)

get job at a HFT prop firm or marketmaker

learn from people who are consistently profitable at intraday trading... stay, work hard and earn good money or quit, sit out non compete, and start your own operation

trading is automated these days - most of the easier edges are now gone to people with a speed advantage... very few manual traders survive - those that do won't share anything with you and have been doing this for years

>>1097344
pretty much this, but he can still trade the old fashion way.

Picking stocks, establishing a core position, playing long term, etc.