Quote from NTMtrader:
With all the uncertainty, risk, and failure rate associated with trading, why would one choose to become a professional trader?
It is not difficult to scope out the people of whom you speak and ID with.
I am not amomg them nor do I have to deal with any of those topics.
Being amateur is where to focus. Being successful does not require full time trading.
There is an unliimited amount of money to be made by starting small and growing capital at a fantastic rate.
No significant personal traits are required either. There are no barriers either.
By seeing the oppotunity, a person becomes incentivised and he follows through by doing the work.
The game plan would be to get a computer and load it properly and trade a smalle account and compomd it up to a reasonable level in a matter of weeks.
Just use a selected list of stocks and trade them, on average 2 times a week for 10% a turn.
Do futures indexes similarly but on an intraday basis doing 15 to 20 trades a day at a low multiple of the daily range.
To do trading your meed a routine MADA and a pattren to trade. (B2B 2R 2B) is simple since it appears on all fractals.
The bridge from beginner to expert is to know how markets work;the profits take care of themselves.
Uncertainty comes from not doing the work to know what is going on.
Risk is only present when a person has not done the work to become competent to know and understand that there is no risk when keeping on the correct side of the market.
General data about those failing is not a concern of a person doing the work to succeed.
Anyone past 5th to seventh grade can learn to be a successful trader.
stocks and indexes move in cycles using one pattern. The pattern is an order of events. This allows any person to always know that he knows all the time.
Anyone has the right to take exception to what I say. The details of creating a contrary position would center on how you could not learn to drive a car. The same parts of the mind are used for successful trading as are used for successful auto driving.
Skillful auto driving is not filled with uncertainty. Neither is it risky. Learning to drive a car has a low failure rate.
make a plan to learn to trade by using the plan you used to learn to drive a car.