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Let me do the math for you; 100 Trades; 35% win rate; risk: reward = 1:3; risk per trade = $100 65 losses x $100 = $6500 35 wins x $300 = $10500 Profit =$4000

At 12% a week you 'll have 2 million in 40 weeks. Who says you can't make money trading? :D

Start simple. Read Oniels “How to Make Money in Stocks” Strategy wise I had a swing trading journal a while back. Search for Follow the Plan. More recently N54 Fan had swing trading journal “Check out the TATAs Journal” Strategies are simple. The hard part is following them...

Who did you go with?

I mean you are going into this exercise with certain expectations. After a period of learning you expect to make a profit. How long do you think it will take you to learn? What kind of profit do you see yourself making? Where do you see yourself 1 year from now; 5 years from now; etc. You...

What are your trading expectations?

I take it you are talking stocks? Do you have a broker?

You have never told us what it is you want to trade?

Good call; but are you making any money on it?

pepdegree: Looking forward to your live calls.

The price causes the indicators to move. The price moves first.

What do you consider a Bad Trade? If you follow your system they are all good trades; just some with bad results.:)

Mistake #16 Not knowing yourself well enought to control your emotions.

Trust is one of the reasons you have to develop your own system. You can get a system from someone else but if you don’t understand why it works and trust it explicitly your emotions will cause you to second guess the system. Developing your own system takes more work than many are prepared...

Too bad. Your journal had the potential to be a good one. I did find it time consuming to keep up a journal in real time. I also found that there wasn’t too much discussion when you have a strategy that works and the discipline to follow it. When you get right down to it, trading is fairly...

It can save you from blowing your account. Money management can be as simple as risking no more that a certain % of your remaining account on each trade. The main point is to have the discipline to implement your system.

Following along, hardly trading myself until the market makes up it's mind. Standing aside is one of my options. Somehow we have to get out of this range. Who know where it will go. I'm happy sitting on the sidelines.

If they blew their account there was no money management strategy in place. Except of course martinagale.:)

Any reason you have switched from stocks to ultra ETFs?

Exactly: When you get right down to it what is so difficult about trading?