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It's common sense. Assuming your goal is a $100.000 yearly income, at 20% yield you'd need a $500.000 account as startup capital. That's just insane, dude.

20% yearly? Come on. That's unbelieably pathetic for a short-term trader, unless you're limited by market liquidity and moving several million dollars. Even Buffett has done better than that while moving billions of dollars!

When trading, you may be "placing bets" in the immediate direction of the stock price, but without an edge (eg: 50% odds @ 1:1 Risk/Reward) you'll end up losing money due to commissions. One needs an indication that the odds are stacked in your favor (or against you) before you risk a dime...

"Simulate trade only" --> Demo trading doesn't put any money on your pocket. It's OK for testing strategies but you have to go live, otherwise you're wasting your time. And trading IS actually a business, or at least you should see it that way. The beauty of trading is that if you're...

Did you actually mean "eats like a bird, defecates like a bird"? (That kinda sounds me of scalping pennies, nickels, dimes and maybe some quarters). And...what does POP mean?

The problem there is that you're thinking like everyone has been taught to - a job is only safe and secure until your head is handed to you on a silver platter.

ROFLMAO This one is a masterpiece! :D

Yes.

Well, you could resort to smoke and mirrors, aka Iceberg Orders :D. That way, it's possible that they don't see you coming. :p