So, at this point we know that Karen is a Crystal Palace fraud like all the others, and we're going through lessons learned. Aside from leverage, the biggest red flag that I see looking back, is choosing to trade essentially one underlying product. I can look back through my own p&l's and see that when all I traded was SPX I did pretty poorly. Now I have smaller positions in many different underlyings and I grind out profits over time no matter what one position does. There is no holy grail. Only hard, honest and consistent work and research will benefit your earnings over time.