I have officially quit my landfill job, and the weight is off my shoulders. Now I have accumulated a new weight to carry and its time for me to prove my worth to myself. This week has been a great trading/learning experience for me, I entered my trades very well (in my opinion) but I need to work on my exiting. the few trades that I lost on were day trades that you could say I more or less chased...and lost. That brought me back to the drawing board and I thought it better to buy into stocks that I expect to be higher in the next few days to week. and that strategy began to work wonderfully. my profits were the highest I had ever seen them...but again my exit was timed incorrectly and even though I didn't lose money, I definitely didn't take what was there for me to take. If I would have sold when the voice in y head said so, I would have profited enough money to have made a 120% increase on my account this month alone. But I decided to wait one more day for the "BIG" PR to come out and then the price dropped...so I had to get out as I watched most of profits go away. But next week is a different story, next week there are no distractions. I have reevaluated my strategy and this time when Im up  85% in two days I exit the trade. THERE IS NO PLACE FOR HOPE OR WISHFULL THINKING IN THIS MARKET. I am however extremely grateful  I was able to learn this lesson without taking loss.