>>Wall Street employees become farmers>>
I laughed twice when I saw this title.
Once because Wall Street professionals don't know a combine from a P&L summary.
Twice because the sheeple swallowed NAFTA, sold to them by politicians, after being told that no US manufacturing jobs would be...
Darn, you are a smart cookie, gnome. It's easy to forget the few voices of logic amidst the throng of ET posters (as opposed to ET traders). Kudos for keeping your eyes open and not swallowing what the media sells the sheeple.
Sorry to burst your bubbles, but my systems always use hard stops and I haven't had a losing week for eight years, except for one, but I blame a woman's distraction for that.
For the newbies and unprofitable traders:
Learn a manual skill that is necessary in the hardest of times. If you never have to use it for that purpose, you will have something to teach your boys after you retire young from trading.
Correct. Failure to emerge timely from a recession would be recognized as a depression. The 30s were not the only depressionary period in US history. Check the 1870s. In fact, that earlier depression more resembles now than the Great Depression. Will this depression rival those? Speculation is...
Only every time I have a grand day ($1k+ in profits). Nothing wrong with it. Enjoy it. I think making money is a thrill. Dismiss the pissants who think its beneath a trader to celebrate.
I don't daytrade, if you consider daytrading habitually wanting to hit the buttons. I listen to my system, sometimes it says to trade twice a day, sometimes I don't trade for three days.
But your point about being an unsocial person is a remark I resemble. I like to earn my living without...