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Once you climb the top of the learning curve peak , the walk downhill is much easier. Most people fall to their deaths trying to climb up.

Agreed.. undercapitalized isn't the reason for failure among traders.. Not having a clue how to trade is the reason.

Well, IB's minimum is 2000 .. and if a single 1 tick loss will prevent you from placing another trade, then it is just a toss up on the first few trades that they "have" to be winners. It's a dangerous mental state to put yourself in. Now, if it was something like $2500 , then sure.. an...

Day Trader's Survival Guide - Farrell or Clayburg's book

This is a country of excesses.. bigger, newer, faster. There doesn't need to be a logical reason to get things.

Yes, I anticipate probable market action in both directions and look for a setup accordingly. One can only predict possibilities, the market will show you which road it will take.

If you really need to read stock boards, then you are probably hopeless. Make your own decisions from the chart and do not rely on any one or any outside source.

Just about every method out there can be profitable to the right trader .. even fundamentals.

TA and pattern recognition .. Trading off gut has no consistency unless you've been at this for a decade.

The idea with trading with the trend is to get in before everyone knows it's a trend and get out when everyone and their dog has gotten on board.

Corporate slave

If you followed your rules, then the trade is fine. This, of course, presumes you've actually put the time and effort into developing a system that has a positive expectancy. As for trailing stops, I prefer to base it off market structure or a loose X bars back low/high.

You can do stop limit only, there is no market orders.

Due a sharp correction yes, but I anticipate new highs after the correction.

I think a truly good mentor can help reduce the learning curve by showing direction on a style of method. It is not necessary though and most traders that will put in the hard work to educate themselves will make it without any mentors.

He's giving it away, not selling it. Give it a rest.

It's 5.25% for ebay + listing fee and then a smaller percentage rate when it goes over a certain price. Paypal is 2.9% plus 30 cents or something. When you compare it to Amazon (99 cents + 15%) and Half.com (15% flat) .. it no longer looks expensive at all. In fact, someone...

Sorry if I kill your sales, but.. If anyone actually wants the strategy, PM me.. it can be explained in about 10 lines of text.

Do the trial, print out all the articles that look interesting to you.. I haven't actually used their chat room or any of their pay services, but I suspect it's overpriced hype. You'd learn much more from a few well chosen books. As far as I can tell, all their courses or methods are...

That auction has been long over.