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By the way I really like to travel to Japan, have went to Japan many times, just went Okinawa but not much lucky since bad weather most of the time while I stayed, but good foods and still a relaxing trip.

I plan to use IB to totally automatic trade since I cannot manually control myself to cut lose in day trade future. I still cannot find a good way to determine when a trends start and when there is no trend. May you share your thought? Thanks.

but then I basically don't use any graphical TA and just use math indicator stuff with tested variables that I see ok result from historical backtest through vba in excel.

Hey learner2007, I can tell you have been trading in Japan for decades, and sound like you made a great living from trading! I have read some of your replies and sound like you mainly focus on TA. I have learn most of the common TA and even Elliott wave.

Forget TopStepTrader.... take a look at this:

Prove them wrong by at least paper test, you're ready to trade. Or prove them right and exploit that, you're good to go, too.

I would recommend an unusual step: start with "Black Swan" and "Random Walk Down Wall Street"...

I still research markets as a function of human behavior, which is much more interesting actually than looking for technical patterns.

For right now I'm trying to find good content to study. Al Brooks is a good way to go right? As far as I understand, the markets, at least short term, are largely based on psychology and behavior and Al Brooks seems to know how to deal with these components.

So is trading just something in the past now? Do you think trading is something that shouldn't be an end in and of itself? I really enjoy it but I can understand if later on I would take a different route.