How much money FROM TRADING do you need to make you happy?

I scalp the ES, been doing it like forever, but 85% of what I have made thru all the years have been thru long term commodity trading, reduction of trades, staying in a good position for months and even years allow for sustained equity, but the downfall of longer term is changes in open equity, usually one year out of three are very healthy returns and the other two may be struggling to stay above even. So my day trading produces something coming in on a steady basis.

Day trading has REALLY become like work, and that is why I be retiring from it end of April, 25 years of watching lines wiggle. Going to start testing all the ideas for mid-term I never had time for since I concentrated so much on day trading.

 

100 billion $. no compromise

 

Well said. There is tremendous delusion On the Internet and on this board and business in particular. These posts are prime example Like 5yr

 

One of the best posts i have read here in ET. Thanks for sharing your experience. Good luck

McGene

 

3.25 billion people LIVE on less than $2 per day.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_economy

 

But how MANY of them live in the USA? Cost of living is an essential stat.

 

nonsense.

 

Exactly.

 

Always MORE, lucky for me that I don't trade for feelings (happy) - I trade for money.

 

>5K per month will do it.