Young guy wanting to start trading

I have no reason to post here. I’m 22, a college dropout. I suppose I’m subconsciously looking for a mentor. I have a friend of a friend a few years older than me who works at HRT, maybe I’ll ask him. I know I have potential but I need to learn how to pick a lock. By this time in my life I’ve become aware that some doors won’t open with a swift kick. I’ve tried knocking with little success, but maybe my tones aren’t sweet enough to welcome in. It doesn’t help that I look like a monster in the night time.

If anyone’s out there I would appreciate some advice. Tough love. Tell me to quit, to give up, to choose another path. Maybe I’ll follow your advice.
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compare your trading to investing, as the year$ go by. Most likely you will see why there are far more millionaires from investing:D:D But quitting college is no shame Bill Gates/ MSFT quit college............................................................................................
 
Where are all the daytrader's yacht's?

There is a better than 99% chance you will fail, unfortunately you won't realize this until you well into your 40's or 50's. By then you've lost the one edge you had at age 22...time.

Yachts? I have two. One I would cheerfully sell for $70k and the other I would give away to the right person. GF has one and it can be had for $5k or so. We would like to get it down to just one, and having none at all would not be so bad.

Now the multi million dollar yachts with full time hired crews, helicopters, swimming pools, and bikini clad boat bunnies, I don't currently have any of those.
 
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I have no reason to post here. I’m 22, a college dropout. I suppose I’m subconsciously looking for a mentor. I have a friend of a friend a few years older than me who works at HRT, maybe I’ll ask him. I know I have potential but I need to learn how to pick a lock. By this time in my life I’ve become aware that some doors won’t open with a swift kick. I’ve tried knocking with little success, but maybe my tones aren’t sweet enough to welcome in. It doesn’t help that I look like a monster in the night time.

If anyone’s out there I would appreciate some advice. Tough love. Tell me to quit, to give up, to choose another path. Maybe I’ll follow your advice.

Where are you working at now since dropping out of college...I mean your job title/duties (not the location) ?

wrbtrader
 
I have no reason to post here. I’m 22, a college dropout. I suppose I’m subconsciously looking for a mentor. I have a friend of a friend a few years older than me who works at HRT, maybe I’ll ask him. I know I have potential but I need to learn how to pick a lock. By this time in my life I’ve become aware that some doors won’t open with a swift kick. I’ve tried knocking with little success, but maybe my tones aren’t sweet enough to welcome in. It doesn’t help that I look like a monster in the night time.

If anyone’s out there I would appreciate some advice. Tough love. Tell me to quit, to give up, to choose another path. Maybe I’ll follow your advice.

muenster,

What were you pursuing in college?

My advice:

1. Finish your college degree in something that pays you.
2. Get a job
3. Trade part time. Many of ways to trade and work full time. www.tradeview.com and many trading mobile apps.

Trading is very challenging. It will take years to become consistently profitable and you will need trading capital. You can treat trading as a side hustle or hobby.
 
Trading attracts many (including myself at one point) because you don't have to put yourself out there, don't have to sell anything, can do it in the privacy of your own home (or Starbucks) with no one else knowing or being involved. Don't believe it.
I became a full time trader because of all of the above. Great for us loners but don't believe the easy part, it is much harder than my day job.
 
I have no reason to post here. I’m 22, a college dropout. I suppose I’m subconsciously looking for a mentor. I have a friend of a friend a few years older than me who works at HRT, maybe I’ll ask him. I know I have potential but I need to learn how to pick a lock. By this time in my life I’ve become aware that some doors won’t open with a swift kick. I’ve tried knocking with little success, but maybe my tones aren’t sweet enough to welcome in. It doesn’t help that I look like a monster in the night time.

If anyone’s out there I would appreciate some advice. Tough love. Tell me to quit, to give up, to choose another path. Maybe I’ll follow your advice.
From someone much older than 22: You only live once so if you have a passion, pursue it. Don't be the fellow who in his fifties, sixties, with most of his life behind him, regrets that he should have, could have... I rather be that someone who says in his golden years: I tried and failed, no regrets. I did it mine way!

Give yourself 4-5 years and see if you can make it, if not then you can go back to college and start another career without regret as a still young 30 year old.

Best wishes to you.
 
Where are all the daytrader's yacht's?
why do they not have this?
one reason is that they themselves do not believe that they can have it.....that they can succeed.
and it is because of comments like yours that they do not believe it....that they can do it.

i believed i could do it.... always have, even though everyone said it was impossible.....

but believing is not enough,wanting it, is not enough, can you stay the course and finish it?

only i know what i had to go through to reach my desired destination. all 12 years of it

i did not have to go through Hell......it was a thousand Hells.

and if anyone goes to a forum and ask for 'guidance'.....then they do not believe that they can do it.
and that is why 99% fail because they do not believe they can do it
 
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I will mentor you for 100,000 dollars. You will make millions upon millions. All you need is 500 bucks and a futures account.
if he had 100000 to give you..... why on earth would he want to learn day trading?
 
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Give yourself 4-5 years and see if you can make it, if not then you can go back to college and start another career without regret as a still young 30 year old.
dont bother..4-5 years wont get you to first base.

do you believe you can succeed in the most competitive field in the world?.....if you are 99% sure.... then do not even try.
this is one thing where you have to be 100% committed
 
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