one thing most people fail to remember is that you will have to pay taxes on the money you earn, but most importantly you must treat it as any other business you would do, get up early and do your research on what you plan on doing for the day, have a plan for the day, when the day is over review the day and see what could be improved upon and keep either a journal or a spreadsheet of some kind to track what your doing right and what your doing wrong. I say treat this as a business because even though the markets dont open until 9:30 the real work is done hours before that and many hours after the market closes. i make it the first thing i do in the morning and the last thing i do before i go to sleep. Success is not achieved monday thru friday 8-5 but rather sunday to sunday from sunup to sundown. This has been a friendly reminder that if you want it bad enough, the passion for this will always keep you hungry! Happy trading in the new year my fellow traders!