Is it too late to start trading in 2020?

[prestburydreams]

I feel.your pain as do the rest of the working nation but surely your trading profit has to out do your working wage by double before you pack in working to go full time

Workings a bore it takes away your free time but the only reason I'm talking to from a hotel in Hemel Hempstead is because it's guaranteed money and pays the bills good look

[Big Bad Barney]

Get yourself a part time job working landscaping It'll take the pressure off and keep you physically fit....

Are you the gardener from the Greg Secker forex trader advert? People who keep getting this advert on Youtube like I do will know what I mean .

"Today I'm going to teach my gardener how to have green fingers of a different kind to prove how easy trading is" *teaches his gardener how to trade profitably on Forex in 2 hours and makes over £300 profit on day one* "Now click the link to sign up for the course!"

Bloody hell wish I was...2 hours......that's way better than being the Stargate guy!

Mind you...where's the fun...2 hours of fun then grind rest me life making zillions...boring!

[Anna List]

If you lost all your trading experience, would you start from the beginning in 2020 or do you think it is too late and would you do something else?

My background is that I completed a Master's degree in engineering and then worked as an engineer in two different jobs for over a year. The general response to the idea of me throwing this career away to trade bets is that I've gone mad, however I am very awake to the facts that those around me are not. I do not like the corporate world nor the restrictions of a job, I do not feel that the poor engineer pay in the UK is proportionate to the effort. I have been to many companies and I simply know that this is not me and that in today's competitive market I do not have the passion (background or other attributes) to make it as a higher-end engineer. In 2018 upon finishing my last job and with the help of matched betting and savings, I had the financial foundations to give trading a good go.

I have been trading pre-race for almost 18 months and I have had many false starts however my results are starting to turn to the point of being green at the end of the week. For me, it may be another 3, 6, or 12 months, but I feel it coming. I have poured my soul into making trading my life and I feel this is where I belong and it is what I want to do for the rest of my life (currently 27), however in the back of my head there is the question of longetivity of making a living from trading. There is also the thought that I am too late to the game. I know that there is uncertaintly but possibly no less uncertaintly than my original career. There are many factors, there will always be dumb money, there will always be smart money, future taxation, future premium charge, the opportunity could get bigger with the USA legalisation or smaller through regulations etc.

I'll be honest that a big attraction of trading along with the freedom is the money and what I have gauged is possible. If you want to make any decent money you have to do what others are not doing, so why would I choose a lifestyle that I hate only to be frustrated at the mediocre financial return when focusing my effort into the markets presents a much more efficient income? I know the advantages and disadvantages of trading vs engineering well and as an entrepreneurial introvert with an obsession for online business, investing, and money in general I know which suits me better. So would you start trading in 2020 or is it too late?

It's never too late to be what you might have been - George Elliot.