elit - I understand where you are coming from. While I have never been in IT, many of the other reasons you stated hit home.
Here's my suggestion - if this is what you WANT to do, then do it. I don't care for 'negative gas' and steer clear of those people. If you are determined to do something, there's not much that can get in your way.
Now, if you decide to make the jump, a few other suggestions:
> Make sure you have plenty of capital to work with - whether that's yours or a prop firm. "Plenty" is pretty vague and I know that. Someone said $400k and then someone said you don't need anywhere close to that. It's hard to say what is a good starting point, but for very general purposes I would say in the $50k ballpark.
> Focus on a couple things and learn them inside and out. There are many indicators, systems, etc. out there and it's overwhelming at first as you look for the holy grail. The grail does not exist but you will try to find it. There's actually a couple good threads on ET right now about simple trading systems.
> Paper trade. Start paper trading now. You can paper trade stocks anywhere - yahoo for example. To paper trade futures you'll need a futures platform and there are some simple ones out there that you can play with. Don't worry about the paper trading results right now, just start placing trades and see how it goes - whether it's b/c your gut said to or stochastics crossed.
Good luck!
Here's my suggestion - if this is what you WANT to do, then do it. I don't care for 'negative gas' and steer clear of those people. If you are determined to do something, there's not much that can get in your way.
Now, if you decide to make the jump, a few other suggestions:
> Make sure you have plenty of capital to work with - whether that's yours or a prop firm. "Plenty" is pretty vague and I know that. Someone said $400k and then someone said you don't need anywhere close to that. It's hard to say what is a good starting point, but for very general purposes I would say in the $50k ballpark.
> Focus on a couple things and learn them inside and out. There are many indicators, systems, etc. out there and it's overwhelming at first as you look for the holy grail. The grail does not exist but you will try to find it. There's actually a couple good threads on ET right now about simple trading systems.
> Paper trade. Start paper trading now. You can paper trade stocks anywhere - yahoo for example. To paper trade futures you'll need a futures platform and there are some simple ones out there that you can play with. Don't worry about the paper trading results right now, just start placing trades and see how it goes - whether it's b/c your gut said to or stochastics crossed.
Good luck!