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I can only add: "Oink! Oink! Oink!" A woman's home is in her place!

Let me give you another example where insanity pays off. Imagine that you go on a vague job interview: "What does the job entrail?" ""Do you mean entail?" "Yes, sorry, please continue." "You do basic research, formulate theories, convert the theories to practice, design products...

A very perspicatious question, it did not occur to me. Well thought on your part! Upon deflection, I think my long struggles with trading made all my hands visible. Richard Bandler famously wrote "Multiple personality is the thing of the future!" I took that to heart and named all my now...

He died when I was 16, so I didn't read him until later in life, when it was too late to do me any good, I was long married by then (VERY long). He was nearly blind, but an excellent cartoonist, my favorite one attached. His books are dry wit, not much to today's taste. But fairly candid about...

It helps to be outside the box looking in. Or as some creativity coach once said "There is no box."

I will be so bold as to advance the proposition that insanity is GOOD for trading. Why? Because the only things I have found to work are insanely absurd. And I would not have found them had I not been insanely searching for insane patterns. So therapy may make your trading WORSE.

That is because it is stating the obvious. Have you ever heard a kaffeeklatch of women talking about their husbands when they don't think they can hear? Thurber had it right: "The War Between Men and Women." I think he wrote "Is Sex Necessary?" after that.

To quote the line from West Side Story: "I'm depraved on account'a I'm deprived!" Genetics. White trash as far back as anybody could trace. Catholic Navy chief as a father. Baptist alcoholic carnie as a mother. Long family history of alcoholism and vileance. Child of divorce. Early glue...

I am bipolar. Have OCD. Tourette's. Free-floating hostility. Paranoia. Social phobia. Antisocial personality. Panic attacks. Alcoholic. All verging on Borderline Personality. I am as bad a basket case as it gets. But I make money! And I shoot passably. Somebody start a challenge thread...

I have been at this so long that I am struggling to come up with an example of why therapy is unnecessary to successful trading. I think it's fine for personal satisfaction in other than trading. Especially if you want to get early parole. But here is an example of building confidence through...

Pick me! I'm a hard case!

I am thinking of starting a mean trading Texans' thread. If the market's doin' nuthin' we can always talk guns.

Sorry for the joke: "How many shrinks does it take to change a lightbulb?" "I give up." "Only one. But the lightbulb has to WANT to change."

Bitch Market does a pretty good job of it. Your wife when she signs the 1040 and asks "What's this $3000 loss on line 13?" Some people on ET read between the lines and deliver devastating advice.

From Lombardi's official biosgraphy: "Deciding on a different career path two years later, Lombardi transferred to St. Francis Preparatory and starred as fullback on the football team. Upon graduation, Lombardi attended Fordham University and starred on the football team, where he was a...

I think what it comes down to is this. If you aren't already mentally tough, you have no business starting daytrading. Or swing trading. Or position trading. Or even investing. Experienced traders here would probably advise noobs not to start, but we need their liquidity. And psych coaches are...

Good points. I'm not a jock, so I don't know. But when I wanted to learn bridge, I found the best player I could who would give me the time of day. When I lernt French, I hired a native speaking University professor as tutor. When I wanted to get into system trading, I took the late lamented...

At last I agree with you. But I think it can still happen to you in a paradigm change or with oddball price patterns. The market throws a lot of curveballs to keep the majority off balance.

Yeah, I have to make myself watch, because one of these days I'd like to know how to trade noise. Not to make money, mind, but to keep me off ET.

That is like taking trading advice from your IT department.