Not to be harsh but if you have to ask on a message board, i wouldn't do it. Sounds like you're not ready tbh. you'll know when you're a pro.
DO NOT QUIT YOUR JOB... Use the money you're going to save and automate your process as much as you can.
You are far from 1 mil and hope to make 6k per day in 5 weeks?? What kind of returns are you shooting for????
Was going to ask the same question. I will say that $6k a day on $150,000.00 capital is pretty reasonable and do able, assuming you have a real intra-day edge. I mean even on $75k or 100k it's do able, but at that point you need to really have your stuff together mentally as well and your chance of failure rates also increases. I will say though for intra-day trading I find it better to focus on the risk aspect in points, as oppose to capital returns. For example if you have a $20,000.00 account and willing to risk $10k of that, that gives you 500 points of NQ risk before failure. So if your average trade stop loss is 8 points eon 1 mini you have roughly 62 trades to lose in a row before failure. If you've backtested and forward tested your system and it has let's say a 58% win rate and 2.1 profit factor. Than it's unlikely you're going to hit failure rate at any time if you can lose 62 in a row. At that point exponential gains are possible and what would seem like out rages returns percentage wise, isn't really that crazy. Obviously the higher win rate and better R/R you have, the more safely and likely it is to get exponential gains before failure.
$6K is doable, just not every day. After taking losing days into account you will average or net just a fraction of that. If you want to average $6K a day ($1.5million per year), you probably want to be making $60K (or more) on a good day.
Fuck the boss. As long as you work the hours you get paid. He shouldn't expect more. As for trading hurting your career, i agree, probably countless people have damaged career prospects and future earnings potential, not to mention current lost income, by being distracted by trading..