I learned everything off the internet. If you think I don't lose on occasion, your wrong. It is near impossible to win every time. I am up about 5k this week and around 2k the week before but I may lose it all back next week, who knows? Try a simulator for a while to see how that goes. If you do trade with real dollars use tight stops until you get the feel for what you are doing. After you get the feel for what you are doing, then use tight stops still, don't get greedy. As soon as greed is implemented into your trading system you will be taught a huge lesson. Most people are like "oh I just made 250 on a 1000 block trade next time I will go 5k block trade", that is when the equity goes down .25 cents and the buyer holds instead of taking the 1250 loss thinking it will snap back and before you know it your down a buck a share and out 5k in funds. Not fun, been there done that. I trade large blocks 1k-10k for a .10 to.25 rise or fall. Either way I am selling when it hits my price point. I am not going to hold on to a stock or option and say "it will pop back" sell take the loss or the gain and move on. No one has ever gone broke making a profit , whether it be 10 bucks or a thousand bucks. On Friday I made 4 trades. 1st one brought in 420.00 bucks, second one brought in 175.00, third one brought in 310.00 fourth one brought in 35.00 bucks. total of 940.00 in. Not to bad for a days "work". The 35 dollar trade would seem ludicrous for some but to me it is a profit. Its like a fee tank of gas. It is better than holding out for a 400 dollar gain and instead the market moves the other way and I end up taking a 400 dollar loss. I eat the elephant one bite at a time. If the bites are small so be it.
Although...I did make over $50K in a couple of hours paper-trading with upto 400 lots on ES 
