How much in percentage have you profited from buying and selling stocks?

Question

Is it worth doing it? What about the taxes that we pay for it, still make it worth?

Answer 1

Not one red cent this year.  So far it has not been a good year.  Perhaps next year will be better if the financial institutions do not all collapse due to their poor management in the mean time.

There are excellent tax advantages to investing long term and to dividends, which makes it advantageous.

Is it worth doing?  Millions of people do it and some have become billionaires in the process.  Must be something to it. But during 1999-2003 there were quite a few who lost a whole lot of money.  And there are quite a few who are loosing a whole lot as I write this.