"People who talk about how hard it is to make money in the stock market and how experienced you need to be to trade successfully - stop it."
Have a trading company, have traded full time and classified as a sophisticated investor. Have lost all my money trading..once.
In a nutshell trading is about being better than 95% of other traders. Everyone who starts thinks they will be succesful otherwise they wouldnt start. The 5% who are succesful have usually been in the game on a reasonably agressive level for 5 years before they work out not only strategies but discipline.
It is a business, you need to do the work and put in the time and funnily enough your luck will change.
If you think you are smarter than everyone else the market will bring you back to earth pretty quick.
Good luck, the one definate i can tell you is you will need it for quite some time, if it runs out say goodbye to your savings as they will end up in the pro's bank accounts.