Pingatec
I have been trading for a living for a very long time now and the one thing that I have learned is that there is no substitute for experience. I have had the advantage of starting my carreer on the trading floors in Chicago and Minneapolis, and have had the benifit of watching many great trader work, and was thankfully able to learn much from them. Since you are restricted to internet trading I can only tell you that are probably a million different systems, spreads, and other trading mutations that work for hundreds of traders around the world, like snow flakes no single trader trades alike. That said I cant help you with what I do to churn money out of these markets, I look at my charts and the advisory analysis that I have bought (yes I pay for information) pick my spots and trade. It is more of a feel for the market than anything else. I like to overtrade, so I use my
demo account to refine my feel for what I belive is going to happen, and once I think I have a good feel, I switch over to my live account. This system has profited me as I have racked up large losses in my demo account and modest profits in my live account. I can stand to lose fake money instead of the real thing. I belive that the market has a zen like rythem to it, and it takes patients to feel out its patterns. I belive you will just have to be more patient in feeling out you entrys and less patient in taking your profits. There is a proverb in the trading pits in Chicago that says "Bulls make money, Bears make money, and Pigs get slaughtered". Be more patient, it only takes one good trade to pay your bills, and you have all day to find it.
I hope this helps a little.
Michael