Rich, that was a fantastic post...and one that I will add to my Rules list that I look at before every trade. Great insights on things I am doing and things I'm not. Keep up the great work and look forward to seeing more from you!!!

Tim's rules, but I don't know if even he could summarise it as basic as it is. Thanks Rich, great post

@Cactux First Karma I have ever given. Well done, sir

Was kind of cool watching my nightly section of How To Make Millions to then come here before calling it a night and reading this. You basically gave me a review of the part I just watched.

BTW I trade part time sometimes between patients at work. It is a lot easier for me to look at the top gainers and make an educated decision based on what I see than look around the chat. For me the chat is for when I have time to sit there and read everything that pops up. Sometimes reminds me of like the software code in the matrix "all I see is blonde, brunette".

@Cactux Thanks for the reinforcement, echos a lot of what I've read so far. I use Thinkorswim and they have a cool scan feature that I'm just learning to use. So far it's been a decent tool and doing my own research I've come upon the same stocks I see on the boards.

here is a nice read I just read which fits 110% to your story: http://foreverjobless.com/blog/

its tha last blog entry from Billy: Do 80% of Businesses Really Fail? And Is It Predictive of Your Chances?

Thanks Masi for the kind words! I just checked out your excellent website--impressive! I live in Vegas and have had two poker 1st place wins--one against the son of Lance Burton (the magician). And Billy's blog post is lengthy but I checked it out briefly. I don't know the statistics but I think anyone can find success if they work hard enough for it and refuse to give up. And usually it's darkest just before dawn and I think that's when most people quit. We have to suffer through some hard days

...to get to the good ones.