Look out the window Paul. As Socrates would say, you see people digging roads, driving buses, cleaning the streets, sitting at desks, commuting to meetings that they are late for, etc. . . . All tied to a 9 - 5 obligation. Some of them can make it to be consistently profitable - but the vast majority, no. That is why they are still tied to their 9 - 5 obligations, and/or think about buying systems, or dabble in property seminars, or get rich quick schemes. Even if the best traders (which does not include myself since I don't make that much, only enough not to be on a 9 - 5, but understand what it involves), were to try to help them, it would still be a fact that only a tiny minority will make it.
We could talk all day about "lack of motivation", giving up too early, lack of drive or perseverance etc . . . or about genes and the environment etc. . . enough to bore anyone to tears.
People in the "anyone can do it" brigade usually have something to sell. People who can't trade sometimes write books to the great detriment of all, where they waffle to their readership.
And then, there are those like some on this thread. They are insecure about whether they can make it or not. They are either losing (most of them), breaking even or mildly profitable. They want to seek reassurance from the successful traders that they are going to make it, and delude themselves with bits of information taken from various sources to make themselves feel better. They will argue their points across until they're blue in the face, because they seem to have some emotional need for everyone to tell them that they are right
