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Thanks drcha for your good suggestion , unfortunately now I'm in my new job, and if I leave this job and go into full time trading again , and if go into overtrading again, I don't think can find another job, given my age 40+ And I recall back those time when I 'm in full time trading, it...

No, sometime if too discipline will get whipsawed or miss the train, but there are times when need to be discipline , so it really depends on lots of env factors

So instead of working, setup a business and also carry on trading But setting up business requires lots of hard work and passion :(

But it seems not easy to be so discipline, sometime also when you are too focus on the market, you will be whipsawed and incur bigger losses Also job do provide some kind of comfort when going thru some bad losses, and least no need to withdraw for monthly expenses So I think only way is...

I have been trading for over 10 years and has been successful in past years I have tried going full time but problems like over trading , entering trades when I shrouds not because too much free time, if having a corporate job can help distract me somehow,and will not enter irrelevant trades...

My day job career is going no where , part of the reason can be blamed on trading There's once when I quit to trade full time, for one and half year, but causes me to over trade so went back to work force again, and curiously my trading improves, but over in my day job, my peers went on higher...

Huge leverage, holding onto to big profit but gone overnight , sudden crash, huge losses due to whipsaw, normally I will not avg down but huge losses bring back this demon Previously I have traded quite well with stocks, suddenly now I'm stuck with disaster trading futures , I have remove all...

Went back to workforce, hit a couple of losses and account got dented, 2 yrs of fulltime is enough, realized consistent performance is easier before fulltime ...so unless I have another passive income, else will not try fulltime again

Yes, steady and nice, take care

This is true, some of the devastating account losses come fast and furious and u got to painstakingly grow your account again, this trade needs lots of patience and hard work, no short cut and even then , no guarantee of success

So true, i will put in some effort from today, thanks

I find your link to your previous posting very true, i feel the same way, further more, you cannot discuss details of what you have done in your trading, not that it will disclose any secret but their suggestions may affect what you do in your future trading, which may not suit your trading...

Are fulltime traders mostly loner in character? I have traded fulltime for 1.5 years, actually I have enjoyed doing all these trading alone, no more office meetings, no interaction with colleagues except my kids and spouse Just that in longer terms , few more years down the road, I'm just...

After deducting the losses and expenses last year, still profitable for last year But quite doubtful about this year Main losses comes from being too stubborn with long position in aapl though i'm a day trader

I became full time trader 1 year ago, quite profitable , but hit a string of big losses about a month ago, now just beginning to recover a bit, but my account still far from pre loss level, cause now still quite shock from the losses so tend to take profit too fast and play small positions...

Running a rather old system, 5 years old, windows XP on intel core 2 duo 2.66ghz, 2gb ram Doing day trading usnig IB software only Currently system running ok, just thinking whether need to upgrade my hardware? Will buying latest hardware + windows 7 help my trading in anyway? will it...

Thanks for your advice, you are right, somehow got sucked into the aapl craze, now trying my best to get out of it, trying not to read anymore info abt aapl, trying to go back to my original path, too attached to a particular stock lead to my losses

Got caught in whipsawed losing trades, been a month, especially aapl, trying hard not to trade it, any recommendations to lose focus on 1 stock, how to get rid of this stock off my mind? Because I have profit from it from a number of trades this year, but now it seems that it is getting it back...

Thought you are a fulltime trader since you having good profit, so you manage to trade while also working

Congras Neke, good to see your form coming back, just be careful with the size