Most traders fail because they cannot beat the spread or/and commissions/fees, case closed and end of story, don't let anybody tell you otherwise....
Having a college/university degree has nothing to do with trading profitably, far from it. For example, it seems that medical doctors, lawyers,...
Well, real traders do no waste their time chatting online about this stock or that currency, they patiently wait for a particular trading setup...
Personally I make my own trading decisions based on pure price action so I do not need (or feel the need) to chat with anybody, online or offline...
There is also an excellent (Korean) trading movie called "The Scam", all the details here : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scam_%282009_film%29...
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