It’s easy to read a few books, go online, find a broker, open an account, transfer your hard earned money and start pushing buttons with the hope that you’re going to be the next big thing in trading.  What you will soon find out is that this is much more difficult than you first thought and you can start losing your hard earned dollars very quickly.

Questions have to be answered:

What kind of trader do I want to be?

• day trader
• swing trader
• medium term investor
• long term investor

What time frame do I want to trade?

• seconds
• minutes
• hours
• days
• months 

What products do I want to trade?

• stocks
• options
• futures   

Will I focus on the technicals or the fundamentals?  

Will I trade both long and short?

What will be my entry and exit signals?

What type of money management will I employ?

These questions can literally take years to answer through many trials and errors and losses along the way.

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