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I know this is not a get rich kind of thing, but how long did it take before you saw significant amount of money coming your way?

I would LOVE to be financially independent. I'm just wondering, if I get into quantitative trading, how many years that would take

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Frankly, it took me years, because as everyone, I took the wrong path in the beginning - technical analysis, books... After that I had to unlearn the bad habits and start clean...

Oh, that's what I started doing. haha..ha

what's the right path? If you can't tell this because you consider it as a secret ingredient of your recipe, what are the things one should avoid?

OK, 1st back test a lot, at least 1 or 2 market cycles to make sure your winning strategy is not correlated to the bull market only for example...

What to avoid: avoid everyone who is selling trading strategy (in a books or online gurus and signal sellers), no sane person will do it, because the more people(money) are trading a strategy, the less effective it will become overtime...

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