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Seriously? You act as if because you read someone else's thoughts you automatically lose the ability to form your own opinions and think for yourself. I think the fact that I have my own opinion after allowing my head to be the arena of YOUR thoughts proves you wrong.

If your problem is taking losses, don't worry about it! You won't have to deal with that problem for much longer...

A lot of guys in my office murdered AIG on the upside, some guys made decent money on the downside. BUT, I know of a few people that were absolutely smoked in AIG -- mostly because of bad trading (adding to losers). The funny thing is that a lot of new traders in my office are trading AIG...

You can learn how to trade sooner than that if you fully commit and you are psychologically built for it. when a person feels bullish, he will see any uptick as buy signal even in a dropping market! or vice versa! that is human nature, you could not fight with it! This above quote is a...

You're absolutely right bro.

True prop firms don't charge any money for training and they don't request any money for a deposit EVER. They train you for free and your buying power increases as/if you experience more success. Payouts are split.

Where in anything that I said, did I ever imply that I was interested in helping random traders that I do not know make money? Tell me exactly why I would ever do such a thing? I can't think of one good reason. Clearly you're looking for some guidance. Apparently trading isn't easy, isn't...

I guess you think you said something relevant here. I don't. This firm existed before the internet bubble and it's still around. So...disorganization must be part of the fad of sustainable success along with all those buzzwords. Then at the top at my firm, our CEO was and is an incredibly...

Thank you. This is the same point I made on another thread entitled, "Trading is hard, very hard, damn hard." For someone to say that it will (read "must") take you 5 years to figure out how to trade is ridiculous.

If you live near a good prop firm or are willing to move near one, you should apply there and try to get a job as a prop trader. Real Prop = you put up ZERO risk capital. You receive guidance from experienced, successful traders. Its the route I took straight out of college. You may be in a...

Well, my coach was two years out of college when he took me on. Being two years out of college is irrelevant. In my firm, once you hit a certain level of profitability, you are qualified as a High Performing Trader and are thus qualified to coach new traders if you like. There are multi-million...

I majored in Psychology and Philosophy in college. I never expected it to be such an asset when I began trading. In terms of my student, he wasn't progressing as fast as he would have liked to, but he had improved in many ways. He had cut down on his overtrading and he wasn't taking big losers...

Well it's all true. $20k losses is not all trading losses friend. Read the post again. $20k in losses was his trading losses combined with the expenses my firm covered him on since December 2008 (that includes health insurance, commissions, infrastructure fees, etc...). As far as your...

good answer

Thanks for being blunt. Now I'll be blunt. I became net profitable as a trader in 7 months. Being a professional trader was and is the only job I've had since graduating college in 2006 -- I was hired as a trader in December 2006 and am still a member of the same firm. I'm certainly not a guru...

You know Redneck, I would have to say that its a combination of his lacks and my own lacks as a mentor or, rather our clash of personalities quite possibly. I am a very good listener, and I tried as best I could to answer his questions when he had them. The fact is, there are 6-7 guys...

Trading my P&L instead of trading the trade.

I'm glad I don't work with people like that. Maybe the best traders that YOU know are assholes, but if I were you, I'd be careful not to extrapolate that fact to the rest of the successful trading community -- because it's not true. To have unyielding confidence in your decision-making...

Sounds like that character acquisition is working out well for you... **sarcasm implied**

You are truly talking from YOUR PERSONAL experience. Luckily YOUR experience is YOURS alone...actually there are probably many that share your story except that they didn't have the perseverance (or money) to stick with it for 50 months. However, with the right guidance it shouldn't take...