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Writing stupid is a fine art. Voltaire did it well. Winston Groom (Forrest Gump) was a master. From the beginning the sheer illogic and obdurate obtuseness verging on obtusity nagged at me. Now I am spellbound.

If I were not a dying man with far better things to do, I would concatenate all of your posts and Wordle them, because your vocabulary is beginning to remind me of that of my favorite ET prankster, other than me, of course.

And it is correct. I said it was an ELABORATE charade. I am waiting for my serious dialogues with him to confirm or negate your CFI theory. But you have to admit, you haven't been entertained by ET this well for a long time.

You know this is a well-executed elaborate charade? I am in awe, and repeat my claim from Opie's other earnest thread that he is a fabulous deadpan humorist. Either that, or a CFI as you think. It is not unlike talking to some fat cow on a "Chat With Beautiful Women" 900 number.

I mean no offense by this, but the higher educational system finds the very best and gets them to enroll at the very best. I know, because I am a half-baked product of that system. I repeat that you do not know how smart TRULY smart people are, because you never had to compete against them...

Personally I think scalping is easier, precisely because of the bots. Remember, pretty preppy boys who can't program come up with the ideas. Then nerdy public university guys create the descriptive algorithms and code them. I assure you, as one of the latter, that we tell them the code does what...

Burn these conversations into your memory for when you arrive there. You will not regret not making enough money. You will definitely regret not getting laid often enough.

I went to the 25th ranked university (of all private and public) and I KNOW I'm worthless. You need to talk to really smart people more. I advise first researching the Dunning-Kruger Effect.

You have described Plan B to a T. I have to do all those things for my working wife because she says "All YOU do is TRADE!"

The American Dream. I'll not express my opinion that value is meaningless in today's market. What trading time frame appeals to you? Scalping for seconds? Riding the waves for hours? Finding the daily direction, if any, and running with it? Swing trading for days? Investing for months? As an...

Well, there's programming and there's programming. I never met a math major who could design an algorithm to represent a new idea.

Well, there's a lesson there. Screw what anybody else wants for you. But what is trading to you? Trying to outsmart the market maker? Options? Commodity hedging with futures? Boxing with bots? Exploiting an obscure arbitrage opportunity? Designing opaque derivatives to fuck trusting clients?

The issue not mentioned is where this grand passion was all through school. I always knew what I wanted to be when I grew up and screwed and drank my way there at every opportunity. So I was fully prepared and qualified to live my lifelong dream upon graduation. I didn't just wake up a year...

I think that was Ivy League sarcasm in response to my Southern state university white trash opinions about trading. In the interest of full disclosure, I went to the finest drinking school in the South. No one would hire me to trade, so here I am in my jammies with my feet propped up on the...

That's Plan B! Good man! And there is no one to tell you what you can't do!

Might I enquire of the Opie what kind of "trading" he wants to do? I mean, writ large, trading is trading, and is practiced in many other locales in the NYC area than in financial houses.

Plan B has numbrous madvantages. You do real work and develop real marketable skills. Trading is neither. Plan B has no Plan C. The market you spent years mastering can evaporate overnight for any number of foreseeable and unforeseeable reasons. Trading all day is not nearly as much fun as...

Alas, it is the opposite of what he wants. He hires himself. He pays himself. He mentors himself. He teaches himself. He guarantees himself.

Plan B (you'll need it). Subscribe to a data service like eSignal. Pick a highly liquid future you resonate with like a stock index, a bond, an exchange rate or a commodity. Set the software up to chart on several different time frames while you work your day job. Scroll through it in the...

The correct response was to opine: "Trade futures on funny money and get the volume."