What Retail Investors Should Avoid: Frequent Trading in the Stock Market
Until you develop a mature market understanding and trading system, the harder you try, the more you lose—and this is true. Even fund managers can't necessarily outperform retail investors if they just ramp up trading frequency.
Start by allocating a small amount of capital to trade stocks you believe in, study the logic behind them, experiment and make mistakes, and only after you've developed your own trading system should you increase your position size.
In the A-share market, high turnover simply means hopping from one pit to another.