Traded my own account last year. Made enough money to quit my job, go back to school full-time for a year and finish my finance degree. I'm not trading "big" (or at all) now because I can't afford to lose the money and I can't watch the screen. Actually, I made one trade yesterday after two months off because I'm really focusing on school now. It has been hard not to trade with what I think is an easy market, but good traders and managers need discipline.

 
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trade4size:
How many of you are actually doing some trading? Which of you are just interested? This really is a fantastic market for the nimble prop traders.
i've traded my own account for the first time after studying the markets on my own and blew up my first account trading gold. Now i've learnt fundamental lessons on how to trade a live account as opposed to demo trading - trading real money vs demo money - and it stands to reason that psychologically, a trader has to experience the emotional aspect of actually being in a trade making or losing real money in order to know whether or not he/she will be a good trader. now, i'm waiting on capital to get back in what is as you have said is a fantastic market to trade.
"Kept feeding him dollars 'till it all started to make cents."
 

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