You want to be a Trader?

(OK, for starters I want you to imagine the text below Is being shouted at you In a Sports-coach kind of way. lol)

Ok, so you spend every spare hour of the day on this forum, why?

My guess is that you want to be a trader, but how do you know you want to be a trader? What makes you think Its worth the effort?

How do you know you want to be a successfull trader when youve never been one before?

The only possible aswer Is that you want to make money, and youve heard you can make alot of it Trading FX. That is the only real answer, unless your a 'wanabe forex hobby trader'. Answers such as 'for the challenge' IMO are hobby trader answers.

Are you serious about this, are you that thirsty? Or is this a hoby?

Discuss.....

My life depends on it!

No it doesnt, plenty of other jobs out there, even well paying ones If you can be botherd to work to get them. You dont need to be a trader to eat.

OK... Re-phrase 'the quality of my life depends on it'

Because it's my kind of job....I was always looking for such a thing...

"You want to be a Trader?"

No, not really. I stopped wanting to be a trader when I realized that I would need to make 200% - 300% a year for the first couple just to get into that "salary" range that I wish to be at. I don't know about you, but I neither have the time nor the deep pockets to attempt this seriously. I would go broke.

Being a trader would be a magnificent thing, but I need money first. I am content getting 8% (last year) and 15% (this year) with the money that I have. I will get a career, make half a million dollars by the time I am 40, I will be one who gets out of the markets at 12,740 and who gets back in at 8,000 (actual points). If I can invest like this now with the money I have, which pays only for future investment, I can trade like this 20 years from now. My methods are hardly intricate, simple trend trading. I am an investor and since I will be making investments my whole life (retirement funds, housing) I may as well get good at it.

Trading for me is a get rich slow game. Develop a plan that gives you time off work instead of taking so many trades a day and giving you no time for life. Why not work 2 or 3 days a week take what your system gives you and have some time off. That' the whole point of trading right... less work more money. But greed takes the best of us, we want it all too quick.

Takes money to make money, and it gets harder cause if you can't grow a small account you can't grow a big account its that simple. I look at trading like a lader; you can't jump to the top, you have to take it slow and steady and work your way up. Baby steps is the key but when we first start as traders we want it all... that's where everyone falls off the ladder as impatience kicks in. Unfortunately only a few learn from all those falls and get up and reach consistency and this takes years to accomplish.

Because my full-time job has down-time except for the hours after European markets close and US markets close, and I need a way to stay sane. May as well absorb more trading info, read some good advice, tips, etc., and get in some good ol' fashioned internet arguments