Responsibility rests with the individual. Taking responsibility for your own trades goes a long way to becoming a successful trader. And no 20% per month is not a typo. Does that mean investing is a waste of time? If you can stomach the risk to make 20% per month then it might seem that it is. Can you compare investors' success with traders' success? Is there an institution that keeps records of people's trades like they do with investors? I don't know and I do know a few other traders but I don't know their portfolios because I don't care about what they do. It's what I do that matters. I don't know what Simon bases his stats on, could be SSFs or warrants with lower leverage and lower risk that the ALSI that Chartist trades, and when you talking high leveraged instruments like ALSI futures percentage gains become less significant while risk becomes much more significant. If you look at it logically, one ALSI contract costs R17,500 and 20% of that is only R3,500, which is 350 points a month and less than 20 a day. Is it easy? NO! Is it possible? YES!
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