Hi Elite, I'm looking for some advice from the Traders here, preferably successful ones. I have a decent job in a bank in the UK, but am likely to be faced with a redundancy 'opportunity' in the next few months. I have traded stocks and later currencies as a hobby for the past 3 years. I am currently profitable on a kind of carry/swing/grid style strategy but this does have a risk of blowing up (as you will probably guess from the description). Not a huge risk, but enough that I wouldn't want to scale it to the level I would need to make a living. I want to trade full time for myself. My objective is to make enough for a modest living initially. So my questions are, are there any prop type firms in the UK or real opportunities to learn to trade? Should I continue holy grail internet quests as a hobby and get another day job until I get it right? Or should I plough full time into optimising my currently profitable strategy so that it can be scaled-up? Apologies in advance if you are bored of reading these types of posts. I can take the inevitable punishment in exchange for the potentially beneficial advice. Happy Friday