I get passive income from stock dividends. Most people who trade for a living spend a lot of time looking at charts (if into technical analysis) or doing research (if investing based on fundamentals). I wouldn't call stock trading passive unless you have a fully automated system. I've seen plenty of people lose more money doing this through paying transaction fees and regular income tax over and over again, rather than just holding the S&P 500 for a couple decades.

What do you mean by trading? The index funds that I blindly buy every month give me almost absolutely passive income in the form of dividends and some capital gain. I wouldn't call anything more involved passive.

Half a question, so I'll provide half an answer. $93,917 for 2015. But it ain't "trading" it is "holding".

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