My problem was I have the type personality that I hate to "wait" to do anything. I just had to jump in live trading with real money or bust a gut! Oh well,que sera sera.
I run 12 bots a day within the indices of CL, ES, NQ, RTY and YM; Some of the bots are 2 minute bots and other ones are range or UniRenko. Trading from 9:40 AM to 11:00 AM eastern Standard Time I get about 12 to 20 trades for that session on average so there's lots to do.
All anyone has to do is think, how can brokers provide "free" trading? Just like P&G and other food and household giants provide 6 additional "free" ounces when you buy the 28 ounce bottle. They make it up in other ways. Nuthin' is free. HOOD is a prime example of how not to make it up elsewhere.
%% MAYbe; maybe not, because your guts know the difference between sim + real gains, real losses. But i'm not going to disrespect paper trading/ its more than sim trading + i use Fed reserve note$ with real trades/investing.