If you can beat this moving targets over a 10 plus time period then things are very good.I always liked the funny vernacular via traders, analysts... like the dead cat bounce...

Anyone heard of REI Trader LLC located in Birmingham, AL? 

As many people who may have quit their jobs to get into real estate in 2004-2006, ten times as many quit their jobs to become day-traders in the late 90s (and nobody had any idea what they were doing).As for worst investment, definitely the World Series of Poker Main Event... :-)

Many economists and lumber traders are saying these price levels are here to stay for the next 6-12 months.

Even the grad student tenants who are picking up OT @ Trader Joes to dump down on their student loans. 

That's what I had in mind, instead of paying the second loan @ 38k, I told him we should invest this money somewhere else ( I am a commodities and futures trader) and after a year or so pay down that 38k.

I also am currently in AZ, with my eyes on CO, but wouldn't necessarily be averse to purchasing in other locations.My current financial situation:- Income is up and down as I quit my full time job to become essentially a crypto day trader late last year.

Stewart, who is extremely charismatic the rest of the time, keeps putting out challenges with a somewhat nasty edge to them - he "can tell" that the people who were active traders before they signed up for the class are going to "fail" - "fail" being WIA-speak for "not pay between $10,000 and $71,000 to continue their training with WIA" - because of their preconceived notions; if you don't proceed with the training, "you don't belong here," "[trading] is not for you" and you never should have signed up for the present class in the first place, and so on.additionally, on the first day of the class Stewart said there would be prizes the next day for people who went home that night and succeeded in getting the limits on their credit cards raised to $15,000.00. while presented in the guise of sound financial advice - Stewart said that not having your cards maxed out will instantly raise your credit score - this particular piece of advice seemed to come out of left field, as it was in no way related to any of the rest of the class material, but Stewart made it sound like good advice, so i followed it. my girlfriend, however, found someone's comment online saying that the real reason we were admonished to do this is so we could pay for the advanced training. this seemed a little unlikely to me at first, but the more i thought about it, the more obvious the truth of it became. this is a class very specifically on stock trading - it's not about how to improve your credit rating or your financial standing in any other way. so where did this piece of advice - and the other one, that students should apply for a new credit card through a credit card-finder link provided by the instructor (who flat-out lied in his denial that applying for too many credit cards could have a *negative* impact on one's credit rating, which it most certainly can) - come from?

@Jay Hinrichs My brother is a day trader!

The more I learn about real estate, the more I prove the quote "I made millions in real estate, but I made 10s of millions teaching people how to trade real estate" to be true.