Based on your financial expertise, provide your response or viewpoint on the given financial question or topic. The response format is open.

Are stories of turning a few thousands into millions by trading stocks real?
Consider this thought experiment: Take 10 million people and give them each $3,000. Every day they each   purchase a random stock with all of their money. The next day they   flip a coin and if it's heads they do nothing, and if it's tails they   sell it and purchase another random stock. Repeat everyday for 5   years. After 5 years, you'll probably have many people that lost all of their money due to the fees they paid for each trade they made. A lot of people will have lost a little or won a little. Some people will have doubled or tripled their money, or even better. A very small number of people will have made "millions". Some of those small number of people that made millions will likely go on to write books and sell seminars on how to make money in the stock market.