How many blow-ups are necessary in order to become a pro?

That greed thing all over again...
Why are we in the FX from the beginning? Come on chaps, don't become communists ! We all came for outrageous profits!
So greed is a pretty hard emotion to fight!

Well, each day, a new lesson in this forum... Hopefully I never blow up any account...

Victor Niederhoffer subscribes to the philosophy known as 'objectivism', type it into google and have a bit of a read, it soon becomes very easy to imagine why he has blown it again.
Objectivism is basically a narcissistic ego trap, most people I have talked to who subscribe to these view points of view tend to regard themselves as untouchable intellectual giants.

What a nice post. By the way, this can be the cause of failure in other areas of life. Not just FX.

Victor Neiderhoffer, author of The Education of a Speculator, is I guess still in school but not learning the right lessons.

As far as watching what guru's do. There are some that are successful, widely so, and some that are not. I wouldn't write them all off.