DislikedSeems to me like the markets taught you a lesson today. Reading another post of yours from earlier today just confirmed it. That's not to say that you are completely wrong. Trading for a living (as in to pay monthly bills) does require a large account (as well as skill/experience). 2% of $100K is only $2K. That's probably not enough for most people here to pay their monthly dues with. And very few can crank out an average of 2% monthly (consistently). Only those with lots of experience can manage that. However it does not mean that it is not worth...Ignored
silat50 : $25k for stocks isn't just pulled out of the air, nor chosen because of the reasons you seem to associate it with. you have to cover the trading commissions for starters, but more importantly you need to be able to buy enough volume for the price movements to matter... this isn't balls to the wall leverage all the available forex margin on a $50 account hoping for a few bucks. apples and oranges! then there is the variance in profits which means some days are better than others. after all of that is taken into account you can't get anywhere, or will simply go broke, with a lame pocket change grub stake in a stock trading account.
i don't know anything about you, but your posts smack of being copy pasted, or atrociously retyped from elsewhere. if that is the case then cut the bullshit.
Congratulations ScalaFX for coming out of the closet!