Most traders are part-time or trading is just a hobby to them. Thus, your concern about those small percentage of traders trying to trade for a living is strange considering you're behaving as if most traders are trying to trade for a living.
Yeah, I'm sure they would love to quit their jobs and trade for a living but they can't except for a very small percentage...a fact that nobody denies.
Simply, most traders already know trading is not a career and you don't see them obsessively concerned about it like you.
Seriously, you've admitted that you're a retail trader and that you pay a monthly subscription to CQG every month. Therefore, due to the fact of you're message posts...you have another job and trading is either part-time or a serious hobby to you considering you obviously aren't among the small percentage of traders that's trading for a living.
Why do you keep paying every month a few hundred dollars to a very expensive data vendor (CQG) ?
With that said, there's an element of trading that you continue to ignore on one hand while acknowledging its importance on your other hand...that's the psychological aspect of trading.
There are many traders that trade or continue trading because they have another job (another source of income). Its a positive benefit for them because they know they have a support while they try very hard to become a trader, they don't have that financial pressure that other traders have whom do not have another job.
Note: There's a nice thread here at ET where a newbie traders ask if he should quit his job...now that he's been consistently profitable for a few years and making more money than his job. The consensus replies was NO because that job could be the psychological reason why he is a successful trader and that job has full health/dental benefits.
Once again, some guys believe the reasons why they are profitable at trading as a part-time trader or full-time trader is that their other job gives them that psychological benefit.
I have a friend that lives in Seattle. He works for a for a micro-beer producer and making about 42k per year with full benefits. Yet, he's a successful trader in the Hang Seng HSI futures and Nifty futures...consistently making about 25k per year for the past 5 years (he's been a trader for about 6 years). He's very happy about his financial situation and the extra money (25k) enables him to afford his lifestyle.
Guys like that aren't on your radar because they adapted. They found a way to trade successfully while having a job. Yet, you come across as someone that believes nobody is profitable and those with another job do not count.
This story now leads me back to my earlier post about Maria Sharapova, a tennis star and founder of http://www.sugarpova.com
http://www.forbes.com/sites/markjbu...nd-the-worlds-most-marketable-female-athlete/
She once said that being a business woman helps her longevity as a tennis player and keeps her grounded and positive.
Based upon your theory...if she was a good tennis player...she wouldn't need to have another job. Also, because she has a job...tennis is not a career to her.
P.S. Your way of thinking about trading is very flawed. Its also gives clues about your psychological perspective about trading. You really should move on to another hobby because trading is very expensive via your views and your continuing use of CQG with these views is a perfect example of someone not able to deal with their own failure while others out there are finding ways to adapt (keep a job and trade successfully).
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