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Learn from winners. Be around people who have been there and done that and still win. Be around people whose behavior is better than yours and you will move in that direction. Find mentors!

I should include @Daal, because his book Traders of the New Era was extremely helpful.

If you have a sincere point to make, you need to spell out your ideas, perhaps listing reasonservice for your thoughts. This post, as is, is junk. You can do better.

Find out all of the ways they are making money from your account. Do they sell your order flow like Robinhood, etc?

Pros do not fall for Robinhood's hustle: They sell your orders and your fills suffer too much. No free lunch from Robinhood.

I like that your goal is to "verify" someone is a winning trader and then try to learn from them. This is not easy to do, but it should be your goal. Please don't be too upset by some of the humorous comments to your thread-- some are very funny. Good luck with your quest.

Who is the one Utube trader you have confidence in?

However, you can learn good things from "studying" winning traders. This is true in most areas of life.

You only want milk and honey?

And/or a hustler (or worse) if they promote dishonestly.

A good point that many FOREX retail traders do not fully understand. * Truly: Wrong incentives often produce wrong behavior, at least for "someone".

Gurus-for-hire rarely work out well, unfortunately. Pay close attention to Speedos comments in this thread. Your Goal should be to develop a personal relationship with a winning trader and chat, perhaps ask to work for him for free. The problem with this goal is that few can reach it; study...

Why do you think the Lira is trading bellow those calculations?

Maybe she can be both!

True. Unless you are one of the few who has what it takes and is seriously learning. The person who started this thread seemed so sincere and it is so often so hard to turn things around in many areas after four years of serious struggling. Bad ideas and habits become ingrained. I like...

You stalk my posts but do not read them well. I was speaking of how important it is to have an edge... getting at the idea that if you can not explain what your edge is and why it works, you are probably in trouble. Obviously I am not saying the skills needed to beat both games are exactly...

Before I shoot fish in a barrel, I drain the barrel! (am I doing it right?)

More to the poster of this thread: I applaud your search for a mentor! )) How have things been going?

Agree with your observations on how the market works and how hard it is to pick longterm winners. Long time ago if you had seen the future of automobiles, 2000 companies have come and gone. Had you thought airlines were here to stay and bought all of them along the way you woulf have done...

You have to have an edge, positive expectation. An edge over a highly competitive market where you pay the spread and are up against traders and algos with quicker execution and who sometimes are better and quicker informed. It is this way in other trading instruments as well; plus in many...