How did you grow your account into a big one?

Quote from BlueTurtle:

lol. so if I tried very hard to dunk a basketball for 2 hours a day, could I do it? are you saying the 90% of failed traders simply don't think hard enough, or long enough? of the ones that spend 10 hours a day staring at MACD....is that bad? should they stare at RSI?

so, yes....work smarter, harder!!!! haha. these treads are comical, since zero practical information.

now I tell my minions who only make 10k a day....listen, if you focus more, eat better, exercise more, you will make 100k a day!!!!

let's all cheer at once!!!!

I know one guy who wants to be a gold medalist at running. I say, run 1 mile today, 2 tomorrow...soon you will be the best!!!!

more cheering!!!!
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comparing impossible to possible,it's also curve fitting ,if you do that with your trading it's pretty hard to find a positive attitude to partner with
 
I built my acount in the worst possible way, I was always good at trading stocks, started late 70's with $5,000 and every year for several years was doing couple hundred percent, it was the 80's and everything was going up. Then I got bright idea of going into futures, doing long term and day trading, what a huge flipping mistake. All the money I was making in stocks was lost in trading futures for seven long ass years. But finally figured out what a dumb ass I was, found words like "edge" are other people's illusions, you just have to backtest a lot and money management means so much more in futures than stocks. Stock market has a tendency to rise, futures makes moves that have no reason to go different ways. Well, I finally learned and still learning, but have done very well since 1992. But had I just stayed with stocks, would have seven times more, but now it is more of a way to keep score. At 42 I retired in 1999, and now do as I please.
 
Quote from Syprik:

I'm 31-35 yrs old. After wrapping up grad school (mech engineering @ top 5 univ, early 2000's), worked in respective field for ~3yrs. Had great interest in trading [..]
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Very inspiring story, is your trading automated or manual? Would it not make sense to get more exposure by trading more instruments as opposed to focusing on just one?
 
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