Disliked{quote} At this point in your life, I would suggest that you do these 3 things as soon as you can. To change your life, you often have to change your mindset first. 1. Find a trading mentor and pay him/her for their advice, but MAKE them prove to you by way of their brokerage statements that they are legit first. This will save you "years" of more floundering. 2. Read "The Richest Man in Babylon" by George S. Clason. 3. Read ALL of the books that Og Mandino wrote.Ignored
I've already contacted several "gurus" online, all of whom seemed legitimate, but at the end of the day, apparently had no idea how to truly generate a repeatable income in trading that you can live off of and give you a clear roadmap on when/how/what to do. I see myself more as a systematic trader who would like to have a rather fixed system or at least objective rules (if such even exists) that I can simply execute with discipline, rather than as a discretionary chart reader who has (or wants to have) time all day to analyze charts based on their gut feeling.
For me, the latter has less to do with how a business would proceed to achieve certain goals, but that seems to be how many do it. I don't want to judge that at all; everyone should do what makes them successful. It just doesn't seem to work for me.
I also have little desire or energy left to spend all day trying things out on my own, probably just wasting more time in the end (as you rightly say). At the beginning of the year, I was already in the hospital for four months due to a complete breakdown.
My goal, as I said, would be to make at least a plus of +1-2% per month with something, while monitoring/trading as few markets as possible. My time per day is 2-3 hours at the beginning of the London session and/or the New York session, or 1-2 hours in the late evening here at the end of the New York session. Those are already very specific targets, but I just can't seem to find a suitable system/strategy that works to achieve the goals I need.
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