Recent content by Zachpence

Calm down, philistine, I'm going to Wharton equivalent of jazz schools for free because I'm a bad motherfucker on the drums. Read up on Linda Raschke. Unlike most people who go into trading who don't know how to become extremely good at something, I do. But honestly, thanks for the feedback.

I want to get a gig at legit prop or MM firm when I finish college. My degree has absolutely nothing to do with the markets or analytical thinking in general. I want to trade - no quant bullshit, no junior analyst position, etc. (mainly because I wouldn't have the education requirments...

Kenny Werner's book is great. A student group of mine got to open for him when he played at my college a few months ago. To be so "Zen" he's one hell of a potty-mouth.

You're beautiful, because you remind me that no matter how long or hard I work, or how good or great or terrible I become, there will always be some idiot with good marketing skills trying to sell his bullshit, and people will buy it. I love you.

I always love when people make the excuse, "I did that when I was 7..." So essentially, "big deal." Yeah, I could do Rothko and you could play sax better than Albert Ayler. A time and place for everything... And your art has no time or place. "Therefore, my art is the meeting place between...

Hahahaha! The only thing that separates you from Damien Hirst is warehouse space and canvas!!! Learn how to build stretcher boards and make your own canvas. Your art is absolutly terrible and I cannot believe you have the audacity to create a fairly nice site to try and sell that garbage when so...

Not me. I plan on giving 90% of all my money to the poor. After all, that's the reason I began trading. Then I expect everyone to erect a momument dedicated to my selflessness. Life's not all about making money. It's about being your brothers' keeper.

"You stand in the midst of the greatest achievements of the greatest productive civilization and you wonder why it's crumbling around you, while you're damning its life-blood--money. You look upon money as the savages did before you, and you wonder why the jungle is creeping back to the edge of...

"Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth--the man who would make his own fortune no matter where he started. If an heir is equal to his money, it serves him; if not, it destroys him. But you look on and you cry that money corrupted him. Did it? Or did he corrupt his money? Do...

"Franciso's money speech": "So you think that money is the root of all evil?" said Francisco d'Anconia. "Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of...

I simply don't understand how one could trade without a "philosophy." The reason I asked the question was because I assumed that most good traders stick to a plan, which would be the equivalent of integrity in an abstract sense. It would seem that those with more "integrity" would make for much...

Amen to that.

I'd be interested to know how many traders have been influenced by Ayn and how her philosophy has impacted your trading or "metaphysical" outlook on the markets/capitalism/trading? I was just reading "Capitalism: the Unknown Ideal" and wondered. Ahhh... Rational self-interest. Sorry if...