Hi. Just joined today, just started buying/selling stocks ...since June 2...down about $16,000 so far, hopefully will be at break even about a year from now while I learn how to trade better, so basically am looking at my losses as expenses which for now is the cost of learning how to make better trades, with objective being to eventually make a minimum of 10% annually, by spending maybe 5 hours a day at the computer, which I will consider as my job. Only looked at a couple posts here so far but will check in as I have time to learn a bit more. Not smart enough to learn advanced strategies or how to evaluate company prospects but still hope I can learn enough basic strategies to get the 10%.