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    Questions About Being A Trader

    This really is a sad thread to witness.
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    Questions About Being A Trader

    Get the CPA, learn to code & trade at nights. If you fail you will still land a low six figure job with the CPA and be good for life. Don't piss away the chance to get the higher education.
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    UK trader arrested for May 2010 U.S. Stock market flash crash

    Exactly.
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    Here's the top stock pick from each of 50 biggest hedge funds

    I think the article got it wrong. The biggest HF play right now is SHAK.
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    Marketsurfer says short shake shack

    lol an absolutely stunning remark. Dimon and Blankfein are in their offices in Manhattan trolling ET for stops to run.
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    Marketsurfer says short shake shack

    lol low blow!
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    Best Way To Deal With A Large Drawdown

    WALK AWAY.
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    Marketsurfer says short shake shack

    eek.
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    Best Way To Deal With A Large Drawdown

    You gotta walk away. You went more than double further in the hole than when you first wrote about being in the DD! S T O P and walk away from everything for a few days. You haven't reached the point in trading yet where you can say "ok, f*ck, I've taken X hits in a row but I'm going to...
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    Has Anyone Beaten Dan Zangers 300,000+% Return

    Or even better - use digital options to make double or lose all in one trade. ofc the loss is limited to debit, so if you have something viable, reinvest it 20x and win the world.
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    Has Anyone Beaten Dan Zangers 300,000+% Return

    Don't quote me on this, but I recall him saying that his colleague's returns were in terrible equity markets - nothing even imaginably close to the dot com bust. Mid 2000s I think? I'd have to search but I need sleep.
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    Best Way To Deal With A Large Drawdown

    I found it. :) Now for sleep...
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    Has Anyone Beaten Dan Zangers 300,000+% Return

    Riskarb posted about a colleague who took something like $20k to >$100MM trading exotic options. Legendary.
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    Best Way To Deal With A Large Drawdown

    RN, to get rallymode's perspective (and correct me if I'm wrong, @rallymode) you would need to read a post he made about a month ago in another thread regarding retail traders and their "life cycle." the TL;DR version is if you have an edge (in any form, whether "hard" or strategy, etc) that...
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    Paul Tudor Jones Mortgages Palm Beach Home For $53 million

    Agent gets P A I D on that deal!
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    MINDFULNESS

    Fantastic post. I have done something similar and echo all you have written.
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    MINDFULNESS

    the most successful trader I've ever dealt with (and others like him, but less successful) have all had giant egos. But they seemed to know how to control them and redirect that energy towards further successful trading. You have to have balls of steel to bet successfully time and again.
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    The Harry Hindsight Center for Kids Who Can't Read Price Ladders Good

    subscribing for imminent drama + awesome OP's handle.
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    Does Probability exist?

    lol
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    Does Probability exist?

    then WTF are you doing with the insults?
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