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Bold was he who ate the first oyster.

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The markets are "rigged" against those who don't know what they are doing and lack the disciplines to do it.

Inevitably what happens.

I thought I put your dumb ass on ignore...now fixed

It's a common among amateurs to believe that the algo's have some secret coding and esoteric formulations to out smart market participants. The reality is they are coded to trade the same setups and targets as other competent market participants. If they didn't, they wouldn't have the...

Slower? Evidently you weren't around for the tech bull of the 90's or the subsequent crash, price movement was anything but slow. Don Bright was a pro and knew how to trade any market condition as a pro should.

Yes but most of those other professions have significant barriers to entry along the way, formal education, grades, degrees, certifications, licenses etc. With trading, slam some dinero into an account and instant "trader". Will "success" be random for the unprepared?...Damn straight!

Trading live and trading sim are different experiences but if you can't make "money" sim then you sure as hell won't by going live. Prove up your methodology on sim, then go to the micros, increase size until you are ready to trade the emini's. I wish there had been micros when I started, it...

You read my 6000 posts over 17 years, I'm flattered,

Evidently you do.

Sorry for the confusion, yes trading is a different animal to many other difficult endeavors.

False equivalence, I was always successful prior to trading, academics, sports, corporate life and yet lost serious money learning to trade. It's a different playing field and requires a different mind set and developmental path. Most will not do what's required and many who do will quit before...

Yep, aside from momo stocks, markets trend because the institutions are trending them. Fading that is stepping in front of a train. The impulse is felt by most beginning and developing traders, we've all tried to be a hero by picking tops and bottoms. Inflection points give clues but they are...

The subject of the thread is the profession of day trading. Casual investing is a different animal. Don't take this as a criticism, the distinction is often confused in these ET threads.

The people who fail at day trading would likely fail at many demanding professions taking serious effort and preparation and practiced with patience, discipline, focus and courage.

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I stand corrected, it was Choy Li Fut not Hung Gar I was thinking of with all the weapons forms.

ET doesn't want to post a picture of my Mook Jong, maybe too many pixels but I got on eBay, made by a guy in Indiana...quality piece made of Douglas Fir.