re: Thinking about quitting stock picking

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risk manage the trade. I've had numerous small losses due to this,

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This is key in trading anything. If this is done correctly one can trade individual stocks, futures (commodities, currencies, bonds, etc), forex (not that I advocate FX trading), etc. The only worry in stocks is that trading is only 8 hrs a day, so opening gaps can run in stops. This isn't as big of an issue in futures/FX.

I currently don't trade individual stocks. I trade futures in my trading acct and leveraged ETF's (2x only) in 401k.