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I am trying to get fire so I can collect unemployment benefits before going full time trading.

Dude. I trade futures retail and have enough leverage to make $500 from MUCH less than $10k. Anyways, trading from work is not gonna work out. So quitting is something that has to happen sometime in the future.

Just a question. How does these kind of profits make you feel? http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/attachment.php?s=&postid=3919277 Those are the kinds of profits my system can churn out except for the one big day which was a fluke. And they all are made trading the first hour too.

You're probably trading while too tired or still in that morning fog. If you're going to bed at 12am. That means you're getting at most 7-8 hours of sleep and less then 1 hour for your mind to wake up. It take the human mind a least a few hours to reach peak performance after waking up.

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I was looking back on some old charts back in 2010 when I started developing my trading strategy and still pretty amateurish. And I've found that if I had the knowledge and skill I had today and used it back then I would have make a tons of money. But in 2013 it was much much harder and still...

You mean good jobs. I've seen the data. Most job created were minimum wage job. Most job lost were good paying jobs. There are more jobs according to the employment data but they are just shit jobs. I'm sure that's the trend. In engineering which is my field, there's a 10 year lifespans...

This is from my experience when I was working the night shifts at my company and traded the US market after works. Don't do it. The tiredness and sleepiness from working will cause you to make mistakes and lose money. I've tried and it has never worked out for me. When I switched to day shifts...

@zedDoubleNaught and @clacy That's why I said "most". There are some good jobs out there but they are few. Most people I've met have hated their jobs. Are soulless. And try to do the bare minimum to get by. You might not have consider that most people I've met are younger than 50.

It's not that women are terrible bosses. My boss is actually pretty good. It's that women in general DO NOT understand trading. I think what's her name on here is the only woman that understand. Heh. Sorry. Long day. Believe it or not I was working today. The company operates 24/7 365 days a...

Yep, you're right. That is the key issue. I don't know yet if my psychology will hold up and it is the one thing that keeps me from quitting at the moment.

WTF is this? Are you stalking me or something. just fyi. I took the advice of one of the member and wrote a letter to my state insurance commissioner and Geico ended up paying the full cash amount. There was no scam. To the other guy: Despite your opinionated rant. It is the reality of most...

The company is hiring everyone new on contract. That's why there is no vacation.

Yeah I do understand it from the employer's point of view. But it's not a job I care for anymore. So from the employee point of view the intent is to do the least work possible. The employer can try to extract the maximum amount of work from the employee as they can bu the employee will always...

I actually have the Asus T100 Tablet with a dock: http://www.amazon.com/Transformer-T100TA-C1-GR-10-1-Inch-Detachable-Touchscreen/dp/B00FFJ0HUE I'm surprised I could trade off a 10" screen but it's doable and there are people here that "need" a 24" inch screen to trade.

I had a younger sister that failed college and out of pity I offer to teach her how to trade. She turned it down because it was too hard and is now chasing after a pyramid scheme type business that her boyfriend introduced her too. Dumb isn't it.

successful traders usually have an entitlement issue. If you're saying things like this it means you've haven't taste what a successful trading strategy can do yet. Someone here on ET said something like: "If you're are a profitable trader then why would you ever want to go back to a job?"...

hmmm....are you a successful trader.

You think small.

This is a company that recently fired 5 long term workers here because they were making too much money for the same type of work that newer ones are doing. I don't think my attitude about the company is ludicrous. Furthermore, Do you even work? At my job, everyone on my team is spending half...