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I have been in the markets for 10 years now, the past five years have been profitable for me. This is my personal experience and how I feel about trading and im not speaking for anyone else.

Is it possible to make a living day trading? Yes but its quite an uphill battle due to the unpredictable natural of the income sources itself.

I can be making good returns but at the same time feel like im going nowhere due to all of the losing streaks I have to endure. Losing streaks can span 10 trades in a row over several days. I can be up 20% in a month but end up breakeven or a loss by the end of the month. I can even have a few months in a row where my equity curve is just chopping around at breakeven. I can have several months in a row where my equity curve hits yearly highs but then experience 10% drawdown, inches its way back up to yearly highs again, and so on and so forth making my account gains inch up slowly for a long period of time giving me the feeling that I'm going nowhere but at the same time I am actually making gains on my account.

By the end of the year, my account can be at 80% gain but I just feel so numb from the entire experience that I don't even feel sucessful. But on paper, I am.

This takes a mental toll on you. Its a never-ending emotional roller coaster. I am always in a battle with my human nature.

The only reason I stick it out during times of difficulties is because I have other sources of income that covers my living expenses. Without them, I would be in a constant mind space of hopelessness.

I never consider your question, the way you ask it. Because it's all I want to do. I wake up every morning looking forward to it. It's my passion.

I'm not trying to have a garage of Lamborghinis. I'm not chasing some furu fantasy. And it doesn't have to be so much to replace my job. I like my job, it's reliable income, I work with food people all, and puts my education to use.

But I love the Market, I love to watch it move, and learn the patterns and strategies, and do my best to put my skills and knowledge to work to see what I can accomplish.

I don't treat it like a job. I don't see a dichotomy of either multi-millioaire vs washed out failure. I look at it like a sculptor spending years on a 3 ton block of marble. Getting better as I go along, making something exceptional, over time.

That statistic about 98% of retail traders fail? I don't think that's just they lost all their money. There are ways to find more money. I think it's because they can't handle the frustration and the struggle and the grind and incremental progress and the rapid speed of the setbacks. But me? I'm determined. I'm passionate. I'm focused. I won't give up because I don't want to, it doesn't cross my mind. It's all that I want. And I can have it.

It absolutely is worth it. The income potential is endless and dependent on the individual.

There have been times over the last 3+ years that I had become depressed due to the struggle and constantly having the market tell me I was wrong. But at the end of the day, if I never pulled another dime out of the market, I get to walk away with quite a few positives.

1. Relationships. I trade with a small group of four other guys. I will probably always remain in contact with them, whether it's just a random message asking how things are going or letting them know that I will be driving through where they live.

2. Personal Development. Trading has shown me who I am as a person and what I need to fix.

3. Improved cognitive skills.

Deep Dive in setups that made the big moves,

What were the triggers, What was the Price-Volume action?

How it behaved at pivots, Quantify/Code.

Until one does this they're fighting with a blindfold.