I don't trade either but I like observing the markets. I day traded commodity futures for a year after I left my corporate job and before my business really ramped up and it was fun but also far too stressful. I couldn't disconnect. I would be up all hours of the night to see what was happening in Asian and European markets. I did pretty well but then got caught in a natural gas trade that went sideways due to an unseasonably warm beginning to winter and I couldn't defeat the sunk cost and ended up riding it down for months and wiped out almost all my profit from the rest of the year. I did end up with a small profit overall, maybe about 5k but certainly wasn't worth the time invested.