Here's my perosnal experience in the "trading biz"... (longer one)
At the end of past year, I got a bit interested in that forex stuff...
So I've opened some test account with 50k of virtual cash...
I gave it a few shots... and started trading...
But had no bigger gains... maybe 10% in couple of days...
But with huge risks and few major losses...
Very fucked up and unpredictable thing...
Then I found some other company and started trading stocks...
I got 50k virtual account and started trading...
In 4 (four) days I had 220k!!!
The results were just to good to be true...
Or it was was just a beginers luck...
Or was it....
I've called a few companies for some details...
But I never started trading with real cash...
at least not with US stocks...
(But, if someone has 50k to burn...
I can give it a shot
)
Few months later I've started trading in my country
at local stock exchange, and my results are really good!
I had more than 100% return in first 3 months...
The market here is quite different than it is in the US,
I can find company data more easily in my language,
I also know a lot of people so I'm getting a lot of inside informations
from some companies...
So far I never sold anything in "red"...
In the past couple of days I was buying more stocks,
hoping to make some good profits from them soon...
And since my porn sales dropped in past 2 months,
I'm turning a bit more to stock right now... for now...