8. Trading Techniques and Pitfalls That All Investors Should Know

Becoming a Full-Time Trader

One of the biggest decisions I ever made in my life was to sell the family food business that had provided my family (wife and daughter, later came another daughter and then a son) and I with financial freedoms and flexibility. Deciding to leave that consistent salary for what was a bit of an unproven track record was not something that would come without hesitation. I remember telling my wife that for me to become a full-time trader, one of the things I wanted to do was sell our home so that I could have an even bigger cushion to fall back on if I would struggle in my investing. It took a special woman to agree to such a request, but she knew how ...

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