Now - just minutes before I am up to my lunch meeting, I will share something with you what I really like (with you and whoever is reading this thread).
There is a Zen Koan which says:
Nothing is like it seems to be, but different neither.
Yes, he was pyramiding in cash cows and what was the really big accelerator was him entering the insurance business. This has meant steady streams of cash every month which could be invested.
Take "New Market Wizards" by Schwager and you get a lot of useful rules.
Try to deeply understand these rules, break them, lose money, rise again and then live by them.
It depends on your personal finance management. If you start with your own money, you should not only have some experience (i.e. method with an edge and risk mgmt), but it helps also to have at least a 6 figures account plus enough money for 2 years living expenses (separated from your...
Absolutely right! That is what I tell people who want to know how it is to trade. You must love it otherwise it is really mind-numbing, waiting, waiting and then catch fast, again waiting, waiting...