Good luck Specterx and Staffpro,
And anyone else trying to turn pro in this most difficult of professions.
And don't let an idiot like mandrillbreath, a decrepit, angry, jealous person influence your attempts to learn to trade.
In our trading room every day our members slap losers like mandrillbreath, sudso and suzie the pig and their negative fear of the markets.
Their logic goes something like this:
We are losers. If anyone thinks they can make money trading they must be doing something wrong or are snake oil salesman.
That logic would carry over into the Olympics. Because mandrill can not run 100 meters under 10 seconds no one else can.
It took me 4 years to become consistently profitable. A number of paper traders on this site derided that, saying I was pretty dumb since I could not succeed faster. In the same breath they say I am a snake oil salesman.
Doesn't make sense. Which is it? If I was hyping something, wouldn't I suggest I found some kind of "holy grail" trading system that made money the first month of use and never loses?
The truth is that trading edges are easy to find, and immensely difficult to put into practice.
Your biggest battle will be with yourself. Very few people on ET will admit that. That is the sad fact.
But at the same time that is a great thing to know.
You will make money off the panic of others. There are always new, inexperienced, undercapitalized newbies entering the markets. You will take money from them eventually, not the pros.
Keep up the good effort.
And let's wait for the whackos to come out of the woodwork.
Anything intelligent to add mandrilbreath or sudsie and suzie?
Successfully,
Alex L. Wasilewski
Co-Founder & Head Trader
Trades That Work
www.puretick.com
1-877-GOLONG1 (1-877-465-6641)
PS. Every professional trader I know looks at % return as a benchmark and not dollars. If some of you lose $2,000 in a day that can be a disaster. There are days that Lewis Borsellino has lost over a Million and that does not reach his 2% criteria to stop trading.