You and the OP don't understand its not YOU who makes or loses you money. it's the market.
you are just a follower of the market, stop trying to be a leader. you cant control what the greater power will offer you. saying im trying to reach such and such a goal is somone full of EGO. and you...
laugh, just started reading this thread, i predicted this from the begining, just from reading the first few posts. your head is full of Ego, "oh i coulda made this much, i shoulda done this". All the winning luck ran out.
my 6700 totally customizable, tons of software, has everything, can hook it to laptop for mobile internet as well.
no proprietary software and locked down, with its crappy itunes aapl
you havn't mentioned what you trade, what you look for, what time frames.
And true everyone knows how a traders psycology 'should be' but no one seems to follow it.
edit: nevermind about first comment, rest of the posts were no there yet
only possible reason I could see owning a gold bar or two is a party trick to impress people for 30 seconds. then somone tries to steal it. too much hastle.