Be prepared to lose a lot of money fast. I dabbled and in one year made and lost over $70,000. And that's small, small time stuff. I find that shit to be unnerving. It's not like 1998 when every idiot was calling himself a "master day trader" because every single technology stock out there was shooting straight up and they didn't have to actually do anything. It's nasty now, especially with the dollar still falling.