Thank you all for such great support. I feel much more optimistic about keeping at it. I am very greatful for all of your help on this subject. I'm learning that the game is 90% mental, and that trading is like being an athlete. If it was easy, everyone would be doing it because IMHO there is no better game!
I disagree. I keep hearing these sort of argument about psychology, the individual, the "mystical" aspect of trading. These elements of trading are so general and open to interpretation that I really don't find any value in them. By subscipting to the theroy that there is something inexplicable, mystical, something that transcends words or numbers ( "but you truly won't understand what I'm talking about until you spend time with a successful trader...one-on-one...) , you are introducing voodoo practices in your trading. I don't think there is anything pilosophical about trading at all , it's a number games and the official language is probabilites and statistics. Everything should be as scientific and objective as possible. Taoist Ying-Yen studies or freudian superego anaylsis is just not the correct approach to learning trading.
Three types of traders: Those that can. Those that can't. Those that teach. Those that can't, ask lots of questions. Those that teach, answer lots of questions. Those that can, real all this crap and just smile.