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Vendor is billed monthly. A good mentor is priceless.

No mentor. Books, internet, experience and common sense.

I hunt grouse with a 22. My edge is I'm fairly accurate and grouse are pretty dumb.

Depends on the mentor. Anything from cash to just feeling good about helping someone.

A good mentor will point you in the direction that will suit you.

I'd say you had a definable edge. Vegetarian is an old Indian word for poor hunter. The trader who takes multiple shots, instead of waiting for the perfect shot, will wound instead of kill. Wounded meat tastes terrible. Sure you've got meat on the table and you can brag to your friends about...

I play fetch with myself. Well some people call it golf. It involves hitting a ball as far as you can then going and finding it and hitting it gain. Challenging rather than boring. I fish rivers and lakes. Or rather I sit in a boat or on the banks of a river and drink beer with a few well...

If what I'm doing is trading, buying stocks that have momentum, cutting losses and waiting for exit signals on profitable positions, then yes it becomes boring. My goal is to make money. I can exist quite well without thrilling or exciting being in my vocabulary. If I need thrilling or exciting...

Depends on whose finger and whose asshole. :)

That's the OPs business. He teaches trading. If he were trading for a living I would expect he would do things differently. He makes his money demonstrating how to trade. One of the heading in my trading plan is "why I am trading". At one time it was for entertainment and education but as time...

The biggest risk is the trader getting into a situation where he doesn't know what to do.

I like boring. I'm in it for the money, not the excitement.

Are you a trader or an investor? I know some people who's strategy is to buy 1% positions and see what happens. If the stock goes to zero they are out 1% but if it ends up being a 10 bagger then they get to brag about it. Problem is they would be better off with SPY.

I know we differ on what we consider large positions, can you give some context. My small positions are 5% and my large positions are over 20% Gold stocks seem to be making a comeback. I hold FNV and got out of KL but it seems to be trending in the right direction. Any reason you held on to...

Sounds good Mic, but are you outperforming an ETF like SPY on a consistent basis?

Do they trade real money? :)

I don't disagree. But using your own example the one shot trader makes more money.

I can't help but wonder how "experienced trader" differs from "profitable trader" and "successful trader"?

Actually the subject is the advantages of sequences vs one shot. So far you haven't explained the advantages. You lose less when you're stopped out and make less on successful trades, however at the end of the day the one-shot (full position entry & exit) makes more money. Where is the advantage?

Change brokers.