For now, yes.
I've been recognizing a chart pattern since I started trading. I used to scalp that and it's how I've made big money (until I didn't cut a position and lost it all). So I'm going in enough so that 100 pips = a double.
Whether it's one trade a week, or multiple, I think it can easily catapult a $500 balance to a few thousand in no time.
With that being said, I've been contemplating leaving my job and trading stocks like I used to. At my pay rate now, I'd need around $200 a day. Prop firms will give you 100k buying power with a 5k deposit, so if I can't do $1,000, let alone $200 a day, I should get a day job lol.
I've always felt stocks were easier, charts were easier to read, and bounces occured when you thought they should occur, compared to fx where bounces occur 200 pips away from where you thought it would lol. I'd also be stashing away those gains into multiple accounts to diverse my trades. So hopefully by next year, I'm trading options based on daily charts, trading forex long term charts, as well as day trading stocks and forex.
2010 is the year of ME.
To be successful in the trading game, find a sound strategy and then learn and understand the rules of your strategy.