I wish more people understood this. Hard work is one of the first prerequisites for trading successfully. You have to put in a lot of effort; be strong enough to bear the losses, learn from your mistakes and come up with better strategies.
It is possible but many things are just not probable, like me becoming a brain surgeon, no matter how hard I am willing to work at it.
Trading is the one activity I know of where working harder does not result in success. Neither does positive thinking or visualization. Success comes from working smarter and discipline.
Everything is easy if you are good at it. The question is how to become good at something in which everybody usually a disaster.
Trading can become easy if you have skills and knowledge of the market that how you are going to deal with it.
fast forward a few weeks and the play has been unfolding.. right? the money is nice, but it's a great feeling to have read the cards correctly. and by the way anybody remembers the day YHOO went up 60 points when it was included in the sp500? some time in 1999 IIRC. today we have something else going up 60 a day. gotta work smart guys... need to look at what is actually going on. pointless to chase the 1 min chart up and down for crumbs. figure out what the big money is trying to do, and position yourself accordingly.. play the BIG game, make the BIG money. that's what 'trading is easy' means.
I totally agree, but some years you might be fighting to get back to even and it is December for longer term, whereas the crumbs are consistent. Good to be greedy long term, but humble scalping, but most won't get what I post....