Fast, I admire your courage and diligence to have posted this log... I wouldn't have expected that! You're on the right way, Fast. Matter of fact, remember when I was your age, I wasn't as good as you. And I didn't have your confidence, either. When I was your age, I neither had the capital, nor the confidence, nor the fancy cars, nor the super pad, nor the super equipment, nor the 3 super monitors and exchange pings you have now. At the time, I drove an 80's model Toyota Camry, was trading Naz stocks on I think a P550, single 15" monitor, 550ms ping, 28K, at night, living in my dad's rat-infested shed, and making $200 a week working as a barman at the local pub, serving shit-faced people. I hated it, and at the time I wished I'd been a prodigy who'd started running a mega IT business at age 15, like you did. I could have and matter of fact I've done some marvellous things in IT before that, but I moved overseas, to a place where the demand for it was low and things just became all twisted, as life throws things at you and sticks into your wheels and ambitions. You know, at the time people all belittled me. They didn't believe me, and didn't see what I could do. I decided to show them. I chose the path of finance to pay back. I had continuously been the #1 in the stock picking competition lists at highschool, so that's something I thought I could do. I started with virtualstockexchange.com (paper trading) and eventually became world champion (swing & position trading), several times, of like over 200,000 people, on the daily, weekly, and even monthly scale (I used to cover my walls with the printouts LOL). Then I started trading stocks for real, and everything evolved from there. Man, I can't tell you how far you can come in a few years time. I started my own art business at 19, to get rid of the pub job, and kept analyzing & trading at night. It's been the biggest challenge of my life, but at some point I saw light at the end of the tunnel. I still don't have most of the things you have, except for maybe a bit better equipment and the capital. In that sense you're way ahead already. I think by the time you've been doing this for a couple more years, you'll be much better than I am now... Just to let you know that no one is "born to perform". I think it's those of us who've gone through the most work & pain that end up victorious in the end, not those who had it easy. There is no easy way. I never had it easy in my life so far, and learnt so many things the hard way, including trading, like losing $1K a night on some stupid stock. It's peanuts now, but at the time it meant weeks of pay to me. I wasn't always happy. But at some point, you learn by the stick, and avoid more and more mistakes and stupidities. Trading is all about nothing but avoiding mistakes. Then came things like Mark Douglas, who finally really enlightened me. He is a genius. All is to be "in the zone" and go with the flow, and you'll always take the majority to the cleaners. I wish I could share with you all the things I've learnt, so you wouldn't have to go through them like I did. But someone who PM'd me made me realize that perhaps that can't work, and that you need to make your own experiences. I wish I could help you, but perhaps I would rob you of the value of your own path. So I won't come here again and recommend things to you. You will find your way. If you have questions, feel free to ask me and I'll be happy to tell you whatever I know. Congrats on Monday's performance! May the force be with you. Scientist