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My Experience with Investors Underground (IU) in the first 4 months.

I am not a new trader and have been trying this for the last two years and few months. I have nothing to show for it now, but I keep trying and I am sure I will eventually get it. As we speak, I am down by a lot (net) but it will change. I am sure. No doubt. I have joined different chatrooms in the last two years with varying degrees of 'loss' or 'failure'. NO one to blame but myself. I was a member at Investors Underground for about 4 months, and while I was fascinated by the people in the room, their willingness to help out when you reach out, I still couldn't get any success that I can speak of. The problem with IU - it is mostly me. I focused so much on what Nate comments on from the moment I join the chat in the morning. I tried to look at the charts of every ticker he mentions, and I lost focus. I kept opening and closing, and I didn't understand his language much - not new people friendly. But after the 4 months, I took a break and went back to see so...
Daniel (Hagereseb) here. You might be wondering what business I have blogging? Honestly, you are right. But I am doing this more for me than anyone else. It helps me to get grounded, and helps me say what I want to do out loud so that when it comes to the point where I don't know how to proceed, I remember what I said here and try to be true to myself. I am also inspired by Dante  http://dgtrading101.blogspot.com and he has been an inspiration to me since I discovered his blog. If I were you I would stop and go ahead and check out Dante's blog first. Especially if you are into trading. This blog isn't about anything but also will be about everything. It will mostly focus on my journey in the trading world (stock trading). It will document my feelings after a trade, the trials, the frustrations and hopefully the light that I still hope to see in the end, the light that seems to be as far as the night star flickering light years away. My only hope is, I have seen peopl...