Thank you all for your tips and advice. These all help to improve my chances, just as OST free trading courses help. I would nevertheless like to see stats on how many traders actually make money in the various forms of derivative trading. I would like to see this site carry a notice of this nature:"Be warned: in warrant trading the odds are stacked against you due to the costs, the spreads and time decay. Only 2% of warrant traders make a lot of money; a further 5% make consistent profits; the remaining 93% lose money over time; many of our clients become addicted to trading, and some lose their life savings; regrettably, we don't have reliable statistics on how many marriages are wrecked as a result of heavy losses, nor how many suicides result". Over-dramatic? Maybe, maybe not. (Does Standard Bank offer free counselling services for those addicted, like the casinos do?) Maybe my figures are thumb-sucks, but I just see new names appearing and disappearing on this forum all the time. Is there a trader's graveyard somewhere I don't know about? It is all very well receiving platitudes like "cut your losses, let your winners run", but I would still like to see the stats. Your golfing pro would not say to you: "Just shoot 70 every round and you will be able to earn a living from golf". This would be true but unrealistic.We all know that maybe the top 20 or so golfers in the world make a lot of money and maybe the next 100 or so can make a living out of it. We know that we cannot take up golf today and start making a living from it tomorrow. Yet everyone thinks they can do this with OST. Why are we so concerned about Ponzi and pyramid schemes where people lose a lot of money, and where the Madoffs of the world are brought to book and sent to jail, yet never hear of all the traders who lose a lot of money? In our law fraud is committed not only by an express misrepresentation but also by a silent non-disclosure of the facts WHERE THERE IS A DUTY TO DISCLOSE.Is there not a moral and ethical duty on Standard Bank OST to disclose the true state of affairs, even as they fuel our dreams on their free trading courses? I have been to three courses and they have cost me about R300 000-00 each.Then they stopped providing free snacks! Am I a bad loser? You bet! Am I angry? Hell,yes! I know cowboys aren't supposed to cry (except maybe on Brokeback Mountain, snigger) but I just want others to be warned before they fully **** up their finances (sorry about the alliteration, ladies).Let the buyer beware, you say? Sure, but he/she still needs reliable information to make an informed decision. Come on, Standard Bank, we have shown you the money, now show us the facts!