Cause Trading, trying to catch swings, is much more profitable. There are two kinds of traders: Flow-Trader, they go with the market flow and reversal-traders, they try to catch "counterreactions" of the market. Usually, reversals are not more than 2 to 8 percent, but better predictable for an experienced trader. Flow-Traders can make more return, in case they are sitting on the right side.

An investor is simply spoken a flow-trader but tries to catch a swing on a higher timeframe (colloquial long-term).

In a nutshell, an experienced trader can make realistically and consequently up to 30% a year. An investor more, but only in the case he has time and is sitting on the right portfolio.