Your right about it being a business. Picture if you will that you just bought a restaurant in a town that you never been to and you have never worked in the food or service biz before. Yes you can read some books and talk to lots of people and you have been to enough restaurants to know good service from bad but chances are you are going to have a negative % when you start out. Then if you spend huge amounts of money on ads to bring people in before you have the menu figured out you will lose money faster (think trading to large while your learning about setups and risk management) Then after a while if your smart and you learn the business and don't treat it like a trip to vegas you have a chance to learn enough to start to become profitable. Of course along the way you will have ups and downs like any business. Health inspector comes in and writes you up (restating earnings), cook steals some steaks out the back (internet connection goes down for your broker and you cant get out of a losing trade) , you have a fire in the kitchen and it closes you down for 10 days (Fed changes the discount rate in a negative way for you). Once you get passed that if your still open for business you may actually have a chance to make some coin. Then you can start to think about how much you will make. One thing for sure is that people who first want to know how much they can make and don't ask how much they can LOSE put their money at much greater risk of ruin. Best of trading to you
Oh, the T28 alis is no friend of mine. And, as you can see, this latest reincarnation has been banned once again