For those that have made the switch from prop trading at a firm to full time trading from home when did you know it was the right time to make the jump?
But you will pay a nominal account maintenance fee for not trading with some brokers like IB, but that is nothing compared to the losses you would otherwise incur.
Regardless of our views on Dow 6000 we can all take a lesson from 7 posts since 2005. We need to listen more and shut up more often. You can't learn when you are speaking.
I think there is inherently less risk to be trading intraday only and be flat at the close then to hold overnight swing trading, especially during a volatile market.
Let the market tell you each day where the opportunites are. Listen to the market.
More proof that Stock Trader and ET Troll are the same person. I assume this is what you are referring to?
Looks like Stock Trader forgot which user name he was on in this post....
http://elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=150783&perpage=6&pagenumber=2
I'm grateful to have taken the path to be a trader over the path many of my friends took after school in I-banking.
I don't look so foolish now. No one can lay me off.