clyde99

I've been a lurker here for about 4 years now but given that the pain of loss and learning isn't that far in the past for me I feel compelled to respond to this. Based on what you've written it sounds like you've been focused mainly on the tertiary aspects of trading without ever having learned how to actually trade. That you were willing to give $100K to the market (all the professional traders thank you for this by the way) tells me you're trading entirely on hope and not on know-how. Forget about banks, algorithms, investors, platforms and the like, and focus on learning the market you're trading! If you can't open a chart of the eurusd (for example) and know why price turned where it did you have no business even thinking about the other stuff yet. Doubling your efforts on the things you have been focused on is just going to dig you into a deeper hole twice as fast. You need to commit and dedicate yourself to the thing that actually matters, learning as much about how and why price moves as you can. If you aren't willing to spend the time doing this, then yes, you should walk away.

I've been a lurker here for about 4 years now but given that the pain of loss and learning isn't that far in the past for me I feel compelled to respond to this. Based on what you've written it sounds like you've been focused mainly on the tertiary aspects of trading without ever having learned how to actually trade. That you were willing to give $100K to the market (all the professional traders thank you for this by the way) tells me you're trading entirely on hope and not on know-how. Forget about banks, algorithms, investors, platforms and the like, and focus on learning the market you're trading! If you can't open a chart of the eurusd (for example) and know why price turned where it did you have no business even thinking about the other stuff yet. Doubling your efforts on the things you have been focused on is just going to dig you into a deeper hole twice as fast. You need to commit and dedicate yourself to the thing that actually matters, learning as much about how and why price moves as you can. If you aren't willing to spend the time doing this, then yes, you should walk away.