The Money Signal: From Main Street to Wall Street
Sep 24, 2026 · 8 min · 9 segments
85% of people who try day trading fail. So what separates the traders who survive from everyone else? Filmed from the New York Stock Exchange, Peter Tuchman, the legendary NYSE floor broker known as…
Peter TuchmanHost
Let's just break down trading, right? I mean, 80%, 85% of people who try and day trade the stock market fail.
You know, there are gamblers, there are people who started, you know, working on keyboards, you know, playing video games and whatnot.
Everyone needs to know that the generation of people who are now trying to learn how to trade came to us through gaming, right? Anybody here age 12 through 30, right, was playing video games when they were growing up.
So why shouldn't they just be able to trade? I mean, it's just like you have a chart.
Let's just break down trading, right? I mean, 80%, 85% of people who try and day trade the stock market fail.
You know, there are gamblers, there are people who started, you know, working on keyboards, you know, playing video games and whatnot.
Everyone needs to know that the generation of people who are now trying to learn how to trade came to us through gaming, right? Anybody here age 12 through 30, right, was playing video games when they were growing up.
So why shouldn't they just be able to trade? I mean, it's just like you have a chart.
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