high risk high reward or low risk high reward.

take your pick

assume you know what you are doing, knowledgeable, done your home work

high risk high rewards

They call themselves traders. Quick, fast, 

High risk high rewards sounds logical in an effienciet market hypothesis.  Your higher reward is due to the inherently riskier asset classes you are involved in. But people also can get the risk wrong. or just plain unlucky. 

low risk high rewards

They call themselves investors. But they also can get the risk wrong. Serba for a long time is considered a low PE low risk share but turns out to be a mistake. sad. or just plain unlucky. 

market risk or stock specific risk?

Surely bull market easier to be a genius, bear markets make more lose more. 

so, what to do?  Bursa has been tough for sometime and looks like will continue to be tough. Wall Street much easier to make money in recent weeks and looks like will continue. 

me? I got money in  GM, Oracle, Nokia in Wall Street and JD and Xiaomi in HK.  Have been very rewarding.