Hi Friends,
Excellent thread started by AW10.. Thanks boss.. I just want to share my story with all of you.
Now I'm learning 1 system and planning to start trading after 1 or 2 yrs as a full time profession. Because, it is not possible to do trading successfully while working in a software firm. We cannot focus on our trades and our work also leading to failure in both professions. Hope my story helpts atleast 1 or 2 focus on learning before jump into trading.
Thanks Sekhar (or chandra) for sharing your story.
And congratulation for turning your P&L and getting on top of your personal finances by closing your loans.
I slightly disagree with your view that u can't trade with other full time job.
In my view, it is matter of finding right trading approach/system to trade. Certainly u can't daytrade..but you can always position trade/ swing trade daily chart. If you commit to find our how to trade actively in parallel to your job, you will be able to find the solution. Certainly Daytrading is not the solution. But who says that Active trading = daytrading. I konw people who put 6 to 8 trades in a month and earn their living thru trading. They do other things in remaining time.
(by the way, I was in IT and I can very well relate to what ur views on job satisfaction). Why not take trading as if you are starting your business. When someone starts new business, they start working on it besides their regular job. They get the ball rolling. And once they start seeing their idea takeoff and start producing small result.. then they focus 100% on it and give up the job. In my view, it is foolishness to give up your bread-butter job without having any REAL source of income.
And certainly, like any other profession, trading also needs its own prepration time before showing u the result.
Just sharing my views here...
Have enjoyable trading