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What is your Trading Situation (full-time, part-time, retired, etc)
I have made my primary living through trading for the last 15 years. That said, I spend as little time as possible trading each day. A five hour day is a long long day....so anything but full time. I have a few other business interests as well but those are ancillary, or secondary streams of income.
very impressive being involved in a forum where 1/3 (as of today) poll respondents are full time traders ....Now I wonder what the percentages are of the rest of the sample that are trading live vs. sim (like me )
Mike, have you come to any conclusion about how truthful people are when voting? I'm sure you have access to what individual people have voted and have developed a profile for the average trader by matching poll results. It would be interesting to see what people have answered on polls in their profiles or maybe keep profiles for poll takers but keep the trader anonymous. However, I'm sure not all of the same people voted on each and every poll. Also, I assume some of the polls would change taken in different periods of time.
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i've been trading on-and-off since I was about 17, around a decade ago!
At one point, a few years ago, I was making more money trading (for a period of about 3 months) than I was in my
(low paid) day job, and decided to quit and try trading 'full time' for a living.
Ended up going horribly wrong, I guess due to a mixture of pressure, the feeling of 'needing to trade/be doing something', weaknesses in my method, and a few other things.
So, for now, I am again just trading on the side, before work, and again when I get home from work in the evening.
I feel as though I am as close as I have ever been to finally 'getting it' in terms of consistent profitabililty, but years of hard-knocks just won't allow me the level of optimism required to do something about it. So, for now I am content plodding allong part-time, trading very small stakes, trying to top up my wages....
....Now I wonder what the percentages are of the rest of the sample that are trading live vs. sim (like me 
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