How should I start? How do I get started?
“Don’t be a whiner! You don’t need to learn. Just do it. Just do it! Don’t give in to the stress.”
– Charles W.
“If you’re just looking to make money, you can. I think the key is figuring out how to maximize your skills as a trader. It’s not hard. You need no formal training. I don’t think trading is hard; it’s just the way you do it.”
– David Korte (former trader, founder of BlackSky Financial)
“One of the things I’ve learned is that you can take the risk of investing in the stock exchange.”
– David Korte (former trader, founder of BlackSky Financial)
“The biggest mistake I have made in my career was my failure in my first major investment – an investment that ultimately turned out to be a disaster.”
– David Korte (former trader, founder of BlackSky Financial)
“The best people I ever worked with – not just in finance but in all walks of life – were driven by passion and not by the accumulation of expertise.”
– David Korte (former trader, founder of BlackSky Financial)
“Don’t listen to anybody who thinks the industry is a joke. The industry is as competitive as they come.”
– Steve Kroll
“If it seems like there’s no money in it, then you aren’t qualified. It’s not hard to lose money while trading. I’ve lost about 10-20% of my capital, maybe more, and it took a long time. If you have any skill, if you have any talent, it’s just a matter of putting that on the side and trying to do what you do best, which is trade.”
– Ben Carlson
“In a world of low liquidity, it is extremely valuable to get your hands on all of the data points of any single trade.”
– Ben Carlson
“The only thing you need to do is find the trade. And the truth is that we trade more than just one thing per trading session.”
– Ben Carlson
“Every investor learns from all other trades – and then from all other opportunities as well.”
– Ben Carlson
“I don’t think you can learn a trade except by looking at the facts, whether and when they are there or