I daytrade the market open long. I plan to trade until the trading capital 5000 dollars is gone. Hopefully I get consistently profitable before that happens. I mostly paper traded until Dec 2022 and now the account is down to 2421 dollars (courtage, fees and taxes included). Courtage, fees and taxes April 2020 to December the 31th 1803d. The trading result on the US Stock Exchange April 2020 to December 2024 -264 dollars when courtage, fees and taxes are excluded. 24 trades in December, 280 trades Jan-Dec 2024. The account is down 48 dollars in Dec, down 235d Jan-Dec 2024. Courtage in December 62 dollars, 790 dollars Jan -Dec 2024. Biggest win ever (paper and money account) 301dollars. Biggest loss ever 88 dollars. Percent target trades in Dec 100, mean 2024 90. Winning percent in Dec 54, mean 2024 48. In the trading diary for Dec I find the following mistakes: Didn't respect stop-loss 6 times, held and hoped and exited 78c/48c/18,5c/11c/58c below stop-loss. Unintentional double entry three times. Didn't wait for my plan and chased twice. No written plan. You really need patience when you learn to trade. When I started to trade my main focus was to trade carefully. I didn't expect that the main expenses would be education material and courtage.