Im hitting up an 8-day meditation retreat this Friday for the same purpose. I hope to share some in-depth material on meditation in the weeks to follow about developing a habit of meditation (latest research on meditation, habit formation, yadda yadda).Couple of items to emphasize from your post1. Stay SMALL. I mean REALLY SMALL. If you get nervous over the risk, you are trading too big2. Options are really the way for retail investors. Staying small and be a collector of premium imo is the real way to trading success. It may feel like a turtles game waiting for theta to decay but probabilistic trading is much more suited than watching charts all day.Thats great, wouldnt it be easier to find a banker, tell her shes an ATM, insert the card, and then ask for cash outSeriously though, Ive often wondered if it wouldnt be easier for me to write you a bill for 50,000,000.00 for telepathic consulting services and then you can deposit it at the bank.Or maybe just ask the bank to credit that much to an account I dunno. Let me know if it works.Well put Kyle My forex career came and went like yours did. My only takeaway now is the cool 5 interest on the AUD or Australian dollar.PS I found that by viewing on different time interval charts, I seemed to do better. I was able to keep my delusions a bit longer while dying more slowly. I lost 2k and consider myself lucky.ok back to importing.Great article, brings back great memories of my time as a retail trader, from even the very beginning. Also very well written article, no bullshit in here people, read it and re read, if youre going to try and make it long term its all in or move over.Good article. Fun to see on here..youre talking my language but I prefer options(selling premium).worth mentioning with trading though that you have to trade your time for money usually and the mental aspect is HUGE.simple system though, thanks for sharingI just take 4 point leads, set a winning sell point, and sell if they lose the 4 points. And yes, it can lose 23 times in a row You can trade anything, I won 300 one night half wasted on Obama to win. Not that I am a democrat, it looked like a good trade Plus, I was bored. lolI built a baseball model, that allows to me trade, easily. No plans to sell it, well not in the way most people would. I just want it built for me, by programmers so I can use it. They can send me commission money if they want, for people who subscribe to the charts. It really is like a stock chartSo when I see things like you post, I am very interested. Have you ever considered, the angle of decent Say a 50 day moving average, moving through a 200 hundred day one, at a super fast decline Like 45 instead of 15 over a certain time frame. I gotta check that out.im still waiting for those spreadsheets. remember those xtz teas from the rock and java dayscan you imagine forex from big redits only english thats binary.Im 28 years old and I never went to high school.but i did learn one thing. two cats and a dog death. two dogs and a cat death.Kyle, freaking that was indeed an awesome article. I have long left the trading world because of getting burned by the company not giving my earned money and wasnt trading faults. Should say be aware of cyprus entities. Anyways the whole article that established the mood and the emotional swing of traders world is what made me write the comment.Sorry to hear that you got burned by the forex company. When was that happen now a days many are financially regulated, and being monitored (as they say, and as we can see) Who was the broker company if you like to share that info, that would be very useful for all of us ThanksIm from the original import empire startup group and really loved this article This really peaked my interest in the markets again. Back when I was in college I was able to trade some and payed for my college outright That was one of the best feelings everAwesome, read. I love the no BS approach to telling it like it is. I think it is a fascinating subject with never-ending possibilities and risks. Currently, I am in the import empire class and doing some consulting while working full-time. By reading this article, I realized that if I want to trading, I pretty much have to put all my efforts and energy into this with no other obligations for awhile. So for now, I will leave this as a future project.Thanks again for sharing your story and look forward to reading more posts. I think what you guys are doing at Startupbros is amazing. The value behind your content is just so much greater than most any other type of entrepreneurial blog/books/content etc. Ive read Self-Made U 3 times now. I guess all Im saying is thank you and keep it comingThat is a HUGE compliment We try hard to give the best content possible. Its kind of bizarre selling books. I see them sell on Amazon but I rarely get to interact with people who have read it. So when you tell me that youve read it THREE times well, that makes my freaking dayI found and quickly ran away from all the newsletters teaching perfect penny stock plays and so on (like you warn against) It felt impossible to actually find anyone trustworthy: yeah, pump and dumps (what No thanks LOL)I eventually found the options trading methodology Tom Sosnoff (who created sink or swim and sold it to TD) teaches at tasty trade He has a site by that name and a youtube channel. His new platform hes created is called dough. Dough will show you probability of success, max profit and loss etc on positions before you open them, and it links with your TD account. There are training modules all built in, its all free (except you can pay for access to see all his actual trades I think, but not necessary).I was going to rehash what Id learned listening to him but Id be at risk of losing something in translation, not actually having implemented it myself I dont feel expert enough, but suffice it to say I think its worth a look if you/anyone gets into options ever. Those with options experience your thoughtsI started with just about 1k I wasnt trading full commodity futures contracts until I had about 10k in the account (even then, the risk per trade vs the account was huge), plenty of people start with just a few hundred though.