Number of Successful Daily Day Traders (2023)
An almost incomprehensible amount of day trading occurs every day in the stock market.
And each year, a small number of day traders come out profitable on a consistent basis.
We’ll dive into the most recent statistics and projections below.
Contents
- How Many Day Traders are Successful Every Day?
- Successful Day Trader Projections
- Most Age to Likely be A Successful Day Trade
- Gender to Be a More Successful Day Trader
Top Data Successful Day Trader Stats
- There was an approximate amount of 450,000 day traders in 2022.
- Around 10% of day traders were successful over the long term.
- A new high of successful day traders increase every 4 years.
How Many Day Traders are Successful Every Day?
A study done by University of California, Berkeley found that only 10% of day traders were profitable over a 5 year period.
And another study done by University of Chicago found that only 20% of day traders are profitable over a 3 year period.
In 2022 the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) reported about 450,000 day traders in the United States.
This means 45,000 to 90,000 day traders are likely to be successful day trading every day.
Source: Berkeley
Successful Day Trader Projections
The amount of successful day traders has grown year-over-year since 2010.
In the space of 13 years, the number of successful day traders has grown by 350% from just 10,000 day traders in 2010.
Here’s a full breakdown of how many successful day traders were each year from 2010 to 2025 (estimated):
| Year | # Day Traders | Successful Day Traders | Change Over Previous Year (%) |
| 2010 | 100,000 | 10,000 | – |
| 2011 | 169,090 | 16,909 | ↑ 60.9% |
| 2012 | 169,000 | 16,900 | ↑ 5.03% |
| 2013 | 169,000 | 16,900 | – 0% |
| 2014 | 180,661 | 18,066 | ↑ 6.9% |
| 2015 | 450,000 | 45,000 | ↑ 149.09% |
| 2016 | 450,000 | 45,000 | – 0% |
| 2017 | 450,000 | 45,000 | – 0% |
| 2018 | 452,000 | 45,200 | ↑ 0.44% |
| 2019 | 450,000 | 45,000 | ↓ 0.44% |
| 2020 | 523,000 | 52,300 | ↑ 16.22% |
| 2021 | 450,000 | 45,000 | ↓ 14.0% |
| 2022 | 513,899 | 51,389 | ↑ 14.2% |
| 2023* | 513,899 | 51,389 | – 0% |
| 2024* | 513,899 | 51,389 | – 0% |
| 2025* | 585,844 | 58,584 | ↑ 14.0% |
Most Age to Likely be A Successful Day Trade
According to FINRA, ages 30 to 40-year-olds have the highest probability of being a successful day trader.
Zippia, a career research website, said that this age range happens to make up 28% of the population of day traders.
If 10% of day traders are successful, than we can presume that in 2022, only 1,438 out 14,388 day traders were successful between the age range of 30 to 40 year olds.
Source: Zippia
Gender to Be a More Successful Day Trader
A study done by the University of California, Berkeley, was shown that men are reduce their net return by 2.65%.
Women are likely to reduce their net return by 1.72%.
According to the study, women are more like to be successful day traders for the following reasons:
- Take less trades
- Respect their stop losses
In the same study, it was found that single men trade 67% more than women, which results men reducing their net return by 1.44% per year more than single women.
Source: University of California, Berkeley
Conclusion
Successful day traders are sky rocketing.
And with every 4 years, we are seeing these figures reach new highs.
