Thanks for sharing those ideas folks - it's good to see the variety of experiences you bring. You guys are way more into this stuff than I currently am or ever was I used to trade personally a long time ago prior to and right after the dark days of the dot com bust but due to shifting priorities and a thinning wallet, I decided to contribute directly to the wallets of the fat cats on the Street :) Might sound paradoxical but it has worked for me. I figured I had bigger fish to fry (yes, believe it or not) for the same amount of effort and the bust was a bit of a morale sagger. At this point, I am quite happy with the fees I pay versus the returns I get. It has been well worth the peace of mind :) However, every now and then, I have gone off and bought a little something here and there but I dunno how long I can sustain that :P So that's all the experience I have in direct trading. Forex has fascinated me but never got into it. Can someone tell me what the annualized ROI on forex trading has been of late? Hope you're having a good day.