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How Common Is Elite Talent Among Day Traders?

It is achieved as the result of a developmental process, not as the uncovering of any magic setup or indicator. The single greatest challenge for traders and trading psychologists alike is to harness this developmental process. Are you on a learning curve that can lead to the acquisition of expertise? I can think of no more important question for self-evaluation.

7 Powerful Steps to Overcoming Resistance and Actually Getting Stuff Done

So how do you start, when you feel resistance? You just start. Feeling the need to do something else? Stop yourself from getting distracted. Remind yourself what you need to be doing, and why. Sit down and the set time and place. And just start.

A Guide to Cutting Back When You Feel Overwhelmed

There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them. - Sylvia Plath

Professional Day Trading- Mark to Market

Our goal is to be able to use mark-to-market accounting for our trading. What is mark-to-market? By default traders are taxed under the capital gains method. As such most of your trades will fall under the short-term rate, currently 28%. We want to file using mark-to-market accounting which will tax our income as ordinary income.