- Blew about $500 -$600 in live mini accounts.
- Spent maybe $200 on books
- Spent about $200 on Mentoring and materials
- Spent about $300 on EAs from Ebay
Now that I have found this and a couple other informative forums I have quit spending money. More time on demos now then live. Actually my live account is now going in the right direction (up) although slow and not straight.
I am 50 now and make a good living... my goal is to go slow and learn.
If I am able to consistently make profits after another 2-3 years of slow learning I will consider myself a success.
There is so much good information on these forums (FF, MoneyTec, TSD and StrategyBuilder), the biggest problem is trying not to be overwhelmed... find a couple good strategies and focus and learn.
I think I have made a decison that I will only manually trade EAs. But even with that you need to be able to "feel and flow" with the market.