I spread about 20-30k across 3-6 stocks in punting short term on a casual basis aiming to get it right at least 80% of the time so that it more than covers the odd bad loss per say.. some good months make 2-6k but a bad month aim to lose 1-3k max but the problem is too many idle months where I break even so am trying to fine tune my entry/exits and improve in picking likely runners (where I don't sell myself short whereby missing out on 30%+ potential gains) because you really need to nail these 'bigger winners' over the long run to be a consistent successful trader/investor in this game.
Read somewhere that you need to put in 10000 hours of work/research/effort to master something so still have a long way to go lol
