It sounds like you've had better fortunes than me.

 ML> Except when trading futures markets, which I typically 
 ML> do well adhering to the insto's advice.

 RdL> I think you have convinced me to focus my attention on 
 RdL> stocks a lot more.  My dad is always pushing me to be 
 RdL> more active with my investments and I've always said 
 RdL> that I don't have time to keep on top of the stock 
 RdL> market like he does.  Maybe it's not so time consuming 
 RdL> after all. 

Well I make it sound easy(ier).

You usually get out what you put in.

In economics there's this thing called Opportunity Cost. It means your
resource effectiveness and results diminishes when focusing on many
different things simultaneously.

In reality, I divide my time between only two things:

  1. Trades
  2. Work

and don't preoccupy myself with anything else.

You have to pick and choose. It took you 10 years to become a good
programmer, it'll take you 10 years to be as good a trader.


--- Maximus/2 3.01