Short term trading : Is it a worthwhile venture ?Recommended capital to begin with. Thoughts?

Do you mean Day Trading or Swing Trading?

Swing trading at first would be smarter (much easier than day trading...... only a 90% failure rate)

Day Trading: ... over $30,000 (USA: there's gov't reg - FINRA, over 25K RE: Pattern Day Trader rule).

Either way... lots of work & years to learn. You'll be reading trading books all the time. It never stops.... but you'll do less reading by your 2nd or 3rd year.

Either way it will take 3-5 years or more to become consistently profitable..... if you don't fail/lose your account.

You'll need knowledge in (in order of importance);

Trader psychology (yours and the markets)

Risk control / money management

Technical Analysis

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You must keep your account above $25,000 at all times in order to engage in pattern day trading.. this is an SEC rule, so it applies to all US brokers.

You need to choose a broker that charges very low commissions. This is because commissions you pay your broker eat into your potential profits and when you are trading a lot the commissions can add up fast. I use the broker Realfasttrader.com they have the lowest commissions I have found at only $0.39 per 100 shares traded. You also will want realtime level 2 quotes, charts and direct access trading, which they also have there.

Day-Traders

If you are talking about day trading, I know very little about it but I've heard on CNBC a couple years ago that about 80% of day-traders loses. Day traders sometimes trades in min. or hours. I've heard you have to open a special broker account with a min. of $25,000 and maintain that amount. You can open a regular broker account with $500-$3,000, depending on which broker you use. You can legally trade about every 3-4 days with a regular account. If you need more help, click my pic. Self-taught from 24 years of experience.

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You don’t have to be an economics expert in order to make money by trading binary options. The charts allow you to predict the future course of an asset by finding patterns in its past price movements, and after all this what we need to win a binary trade.

Don't be intimidated by the charts, actually they are not that hard to read and understand. Strategies that are based on reading and analyzing charts are part of the technical analysis area.

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i have attended a lot of seminars, read counless books on forex trading and it all cost me thousands of dollars. the worst thing was i blew up my first account. after that i opened another account and the same thing happened again. i started to wonder why i couldn,t make any money in forex trading. at first i thought i knew everything about trading. finally i found that the main problem i have was i did not have the right mental in trading. as we know that psychology has great impact on our trading result. apart from psychology issue, there is another problem that we have to address. they are money management, market analysis, and entry/exit rules. to me money management is important in trading. i opened another account and start to trade profitably after i learnt from my past mistake. i don't trade emotionally anymore.

if you are serious about trading you need to address your weakness and try to fix it. no forex guru can make you Professional trader unless you want to learn from your mistake.