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The difference is that the Olympic or World skaters had top coaches (former top skaters) in skating and they had the psychological factor of support from family & friends. In comparision, most retail traders do not have such and believe they can substitue such via social media (online). Only a...

You do not get it. That's ok...reason why you're in the position you're in...here at the forum looking for trader tax advice along with throwing an insult in there. By the way, just in case you didn't notice (I hope you did notice)...your question was already answered here prior to my post...

For those reading this message post...this is one of the reasons why a trader should be properly prepared to trade and that includes the business side of trading such as tax preparation. A tax accountant should be decided upon prior to venturing into trading that's very familiar with trader...

You are not going to be able to do such via TA alone. You're going to need to learn & understand the market context for each trading day and then pick the trading days to trade for that goal. Thus, you should be looking at (understanding) the market context that tends to move the price 50 -...

As manofire stated...this is not a suitable place to ask such a question. Go see a lawyer. By the way, you didn't mention your country location, you didn't mention if your soon to be ex is working or you if you have been supporting her, you didn't mention if there's children involved, you...

I'm not sure, they use to hang out in the non trading related threads...threads I don't visit. Back then, I was sure ET would get involved in a murder trial as in their message records being subpoena or even being sued (part of the blame). :D

Also, a person that's being trolled has two choices... 1) Put the other person on ignore and leave the person there (on ignore). Yet, that's difficult to do for many. 2) If you're unable to do #1...use the report button to report their message posts or send direct private messages to the mods...

I remember when I begin to take afternoon naps...it was when my kids were born. I just continue doing it even after they stopped around the age of 7. They were at a school that had a policy of nap time until age of 7. Today, the afternoon naps helped me be more focus in the afternoon trading...

I believe it is because I do know TradeStation, IB are notably larger although I'm not aware of any survey involving Fidelity. Yet, what I was commenting about involved +20 brokers including forex brokers back in 2008. As for full-time retail or part-time retail...can't remember if that survey...

I think a "rite of passage" would be big losing trading day or a drawdown but not a blowup trading account (trader can no longer trade until account is refunded). Regardless, I've seen more traders here at ET talk about their accounts blowup or calling it quits in the past 12 months than any...

A few years back...you said that too and then admitted in another post you're having a bad day. More gibberish ??? :D

Some things don't need clarification. If you don't understand the gibberish...more explanation will be more gibberish to you. I'm not being a smart-ass. I just don't want to spend time explaining simple sentences because I'm sure someone else out there gets it when you don't or vice versa. :D...

I don't think accepting or not accepting when it happens is the issue. I think the thread starter just notice something odd about people talking about such. Maybe he expects people to be quiet ??? Yet, I've notice more journals at different forums (including ET) were traders only journal...

Most here are retail traders and the average account size may be 5k - 20k. I came up with those numbers from another forum that did a survey about account sizes back around 2010. Anyways, usually a trader that says he/she blew out their account...I don't think its meant it went to zero or...

Saltynuts, Videos, podcasts, blogs, forum message posts, chat rooms or online trading course are not going teach you how to trade if that's what you're really looking for. Yet, it may give you ideas that you can explore, research and then merge the useful info from the junk into your own trade...

A lot of people doing this. They just don't realize their trade method had originated from someone that believed that lunar cycles, planetary movements were variables used in some well known trade methods (e.g. Gann, Fibonacci). Thus, if there a connection between astrology and mathematics...

Yeah, the initial discussion was sort'uv changed by someone else and then I saw your discussion...I then replied to that new discussion via being very specific about the type of trader I'm talking about. Retail perspective of a $1000 profitable trading day versus Trading firm trader perspective...

I do remember a few traders here at ET that stated (*cough*) they had +million dollar trading day but they worked for a trading firm. In contrast, I don't ever remember any retail trader here at ET that trades from home...discussing their +million dollar trading day although I'll admit I have...

A profitable trader that's retail...will notice any $1,000 profitable trading day even if it was not the goal. Even after 10 years...it will still matter even if he/she is consistently doing such. Reason, if they don't have that $1,000 profitable trading day...they will then know something has...

How did you feel with your first +$1000 day in trading profits? It happened in my freshman year of college. I thought I had closed the position and went to my morning classes. I came back home around lunch...called my broker about another trade and discovered I had not closed the morning...