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Seems like the consensus here is to not put your retirement money into IRAs (unless you have to rollover a 401(k) to an IRA after changing jobs or if you inheirit an IRA to create a stretch) but rather manage your own liquid accounts and pay longer term capital gains tax instead - provided you...

I was curious how many ETers also manage Real Estate investments in addition to or to augment their trading. I am doing ok trading but looking to add cash flow positive Real Estate to my portfolio in the coming year with the low rates and depressed prices. My thought is to own rental...

A friend of mine linked trading to a career in sales. Both have high risks, a lot of wash outs, hard repetitive work and no guaranteed income. Both require an edge/strategy/system to eventually gain confidence and prevail. Failure rate in both is high. Thoughts on this relationship?

I agree with everything here but I do miss admiring the nice looking girls on the L in the morning now that I am at home trading full time.

I forgot to add, I love to say the word "doji". I can't stop laughing over it. Good trading today!

-I don’t believe in trading time for money -I don’t believe in “my time” and “company time” – all time is how I choose to spend it -The 9 to 5, 40 hour work week is archaic -“Face time” does not equal productive time. No more clock watching. -No politics, meetings...

Hasn't this so called "professor" ever heard of technical analysis? Also, he interchanges the use of the word "trader" with "investor". Shouldn't be teaching. Thoughts? http://www.news.uiuc.edu/news/07/0920investing.html

I'm curious how those that trade full time decided on their instrument of choice and what factors you considered in making your decision.

What do you do then if you are done by noon?

Thoughts on the best way to turn 225K to 1 Million?

110K in capital is nothing to sneeze at given how many people in this country are on the other side of the equation. However, it isn't much to gloat over. I have saved and traded my way to $225K and I still skip the morning Starbucks to save.

If one was serious about trading on their own (strategy irrelevant for the moment) and had about $200K in capital, single and no debt how would you proceed?

LOL...check out this customer review I didn't know quite what to expect of the Hedge Fund, but it was time for a change. My old pair, the Mutual Fund, was looking a bit frayed around the edges. Sure, the old kicks were comfortable, still got me from place to place, and a pair of Mutual Funds...

Borat would agree. They take everybody's money and never give it back. Without them taking retail traders money this week a significant amount of price action is gone from the market.

If you are making those kind of returns (assuming you have a decent amount of capital) why work on wall street? Why waste time and energy doing admin non-sense and laying out nearly 100K for an MBA that could be better leveraged in the markets or several years of your life getting a CFA if you...