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That's exactly what I was suggesting. For those who can't trade it is the best solution.

Possibly the option you should take is to pay someone to manage your capital. You keep suggesting that you can somehow buy the secret to success but avoid who it is you have to pay. Not sure if the educational end of the business is regulated. There must be something because some of the...

If you are just converting you might try "Norbert's Gambit" Consists of buying and selling an interlisted stock at the same time.

It's good to know exceptional traders. The ones I know that make a living trade much bigger accounts. Hopefully your acquaintance's are willing to share. I heard about unicorns on the internet, same place I hear about traders. I just googled them.:)

How do you control your risk?

Like a unicorn, you hear of people that day trade a 100K account that make a living but has anyone ever seen one?

Do you know anyone who is doing this?

I doubt that anyone here is making a living trading a 100K account. Can it be done, in theory it's quite easy. In reality I have my doubts.

After seeing your background I'm surprised to hear a yearly 50% return recommended as a minimum to determine if you should be trading or not.

You have been at it for 5 years, where do you find quality trading training?

I thought this question deserved its own thread. I think it comes down to common sense. Ask yourself the following questions. Why is the poster posting. I know it's impossible to get into someone else's mind just like it's impossible to know why someone is trading, but you can kind of get a...

Define "A Living". Now ask yourself if it is realistic to attain that with 100k capital. Not the "Living" I need to maintain my lifestyle. FWIW; I make a living but I'm well capitalized. I swing trade stocks. My returns are around 20%.

Not sure what you were selling but my question would be who set the price? The buyer or the seller? Supply and demand usually set the price. Did you go looking for buyers or did they come looking for you. Did you ever sell at a loss to clear out old inventory?

Good Luck. You might want to spend a bit of time researching HFT to see what you are up against.

By the time you make your decision the algo's have probably changed the price anyway. I wouldn't worry about it.

In theory all trades work as planned. My plan calls for a loss or a gain.

"In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not." Yogi Berra If I follow my plan all trades have a good entry. Some of them have a bad outcome!

Can you expand on that statement? How diversified? Are your returns better than a well diversified index ETF?

I guess everybody has their own definition. My exit strategy for my trading plan calls for either hitting a stop loss or exiting with a trailing stop that increases as the price increases. I see no benefit of closing a trade because it is so many days old. Let your winners run!! :)

I've held swing trades for years. They never hit my sell criteria of breaking the trend.