Never over-leverage your account. Otherwise any drawdown will have you trading emotions. Best advice I can give. ~Playing with my money is like playing with my emotions. lol
Joe, take my advice... start up a forum for traders and put silly first posts on it and then sit back and let it suck in lots of advisors, watch them correct each other and squabble as you sit back calmly uninvolved. Then get a few advertisers to come in and you can laugh all the way to the bank. You got talen there mate - cash in on it!
im with you fellas ...... when i was born i came out hold a 20 dollar bill...... by the time i was 3, i was the main bread winner for my family.... became a millionaire while still thinking girls were yucky........
Where I learned, and continue to learn, the most is Investor's Business Daily. Just buy the weekend edition (website is investors.com and from there you can find a retail outlet near you) for $1.50 every Saturday. Read them, study them, read their books, etc. They are an excellent place to start.
LOL Im also 18 mate.. Started with way way less than you when i left college in July and went fulltime trading for career (£759 capital) Now 3months on i have a luxury apartment with rent paid till xmas, over £3,000 capital in my account, and averaging over £650 per week since i started fulltime trading.. So it is possible to do it, age isnt a factor. The younger you are the better even. But if you do really really want to start trading you have to stop doing so much work in your mind, and start just doing the actual physical work of trading! ALL YOU NEED TO TRADE IS A BASIC CHART WHERE YOU CAN SEE sUPPORT AND REISTANCE LEVELS, AND A BROKER/SPREADBETTING FIRM WHERE YOU CNA MAKE YOUR TRADERS AND CASH THEM IN THEN. So i would recommend you get an account with igindex for your charts, use Tradindex.com as your trading firm for executing your trades, and just use the virtual account from tradindex and start practsisng trading using suppotr and reistance levels.