You'll be much better off thinking of your software engineering job as your primary job, investing as but-and-hold for fifty years, and day-trading as a hobby.
A lot of people get into trouble by confusing "day-trading" with "investing". The 2000 crash hurt them and the 2008 crash wiped them out.
I predict you will lose your money. 1 month? lol .... if you told me consistently over 8 years you did that then that would have alot more meaning. 1 month means nothing.
However, feel free to try as I dont want to tell anyone not to try something .....
I am 15 and I really want to do day trading for a living... I have done virtual investing with real time stocks and I made $18,000 in a month starting from $100,000. I love charts and I'm good at it I guess.
Also, I am probably going to college for software engineering as a back up.
