Brokers? Brokers are the worst. Their primary agenda is to make commission and push the crapola that their firms are underwriting. Beyond that, they could care less. Brokers are in the business of churning. And then as far as funds, they are like mack trucks they don't trade at all just enter large positions, in segments, here and there. Really Boz, unless you're in there with what I do you can't comment on it any more than AxelWolf can comment on what I do. I mean you're talking about a guy who didn't even realize that a marker with the signature torn out of it was paid off, or that a pit boss would never allow you to take a picture of a marker right after you sign it. These types of comments are made by people who have no actual knowledge of what is being described.

<<What is the largest percentage of available funds you have ever committed?>> You have to look at stocks like AMZN differently from your average trade. Your average day trader enters tons of micro positions daily with a regimented stop/loss and pulls the trigger the moment the stock starts going too far against him. You just can't trade a stock like AMZN successfully like that. It swings back and forth so wildly that if you implement a rigid stop loss on it you'd get stopped out of so many trades you'd have a hard time making it - and you'd constantly get stopped out of trades where the stock came back later to give you a massive profit.

I don't have any problem holding longs until they come back. Shorts - those are pretty much the only trades where I lose my nerve and pull the trigger at a loss if things go too far against me. I described one such short in this thread where I lost ten grand. And even on that small trade I would have booked a profit if I had held just a couple hours longer. Which comes back to why day traders lose so regularly - they over extend and commit to going all cash by the end of each day.

Anyway, believe it or don't. If you trade the top quality stocks I trade, that keep hitting new ATHs, and are willing to hold them the minority of times when the market pulls out from under you, there is no way to lose. If this doesn't make sense to you it's because you're not really IN the market, you're a, relatively speaking, casual observer from the outside. That's not to say that casual observers can't make money - but they have to buy and hold blue chips they can't succeed at trading.