My final goal is to trade full time. Right now I'm still in school and trading part time. I actually started making profits a few months ago after a year of trading, and I hope to have enough capital by the time I graduate to support myself, or even just work full time in my field of study and then build up a good capital base whereby I wont have to worry about making money. But I've heard its really hard psychologically to go to full time trading because it is your only source of income and if you do a few big bad trades you might to have anything to eat that month :P so you gotta make sure to take risk management very seriously and to have enough money in the bank to last you at least 6 months worth of expenses