There's no better way to be employed than to be self employed through trading. The benefits of self employment is that you're your own oga. You can manage your time yourself and your are often not under any pressure to meet a certain target neither will you be faced with the threats of sack all the time.
And then look at the disadvantages:
- you get no days off, you need to work when there are events and you might work all day and have a loss
- you don't have paid leave
- you have no benefits, no health insurance no contribution to your retirement, you need to pay that out of your pockets
- you'd have zero guarantee you will actually have a profit at the end of the month
- unlike a job you can actually lose money with it
- getting sacked, no problem, I can claim unemployment benefits, a self-employed trader can't