Only about half of the students who take All-Tech's training continue trading for any length of time. It takes a certain type of personality to do well. If a trader takes his or her losses at the close of the markets, there is an instant measure of success or failure. At the end of the day, there should be nothing to tie the trader to the market financially, at least. The need for another adrenaline rush is a whole different matter.
Losers lose between the ears before they do on the screen.
The book first came out in 1993 and is now available in paperback. Williamson, author of nine other investment books, has been a financial planner in La Jolla for more than a decade. The buzz at the glitzy Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show last month was over making it easier for people to access the Internet, especially to use the most popular computer feature of all time, electronic mail. Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, Oracle and other computer software giants were pushing TV set-top box computers, a limited capability computer that hooks up to your television set and makes it an interactive link to the Web. The basic boxes sell for several hundred dollars, but keyboards and printers are extra.