Does online trading actually work?

sure if you are good at it.....

It does for people who actually know what they're doing. For everyone else, not so much.

If you have to ask, YOU are part of the 99% of the population that doesn't know enough to successfully trade.

Note: I am also part of that group.

it used to but like everything the world and his dog are doing it we don't want to work anymore we are all business people

Every penny you gain someone else loses. The only guaranteed winner is the broker charging commission.