A Daytrader's Story

Quote from jack hershey:

Hi all
I just signed up after following a reference by nokoi. I've read all the posts in this thread to get a feeling for the group.

Nice conversations, so to speak.

I'll try to get over my current shyness...lol...

hi...Jack, welcome to Elite some people already follow your method here so you are not a stranger :)
now only if that guy show up so they don't think it's my story :D
 
Not only to day traders but all traders and investors. Only one failure of big brokerage house will wipe out customer accounts as high as millions in number and as high as trillions in dollars. SIPC? I wonder how many fires it can put out. It just needs one collapse of a huge firm to bring down the industry and SIPC to their knees in chain reactions. Don't blame day trading in case of such collapse. Look out more for crooks and manipulators like Enron and WorldCom.

:p

Yeah, continue to play big. not only the market risks but non-market risks will take care of you.
 
Gee one day I will understand Daniel :D

Well I think myself that just positive exhortation is not enough and that it doesn't serve the guy if it is for supporting some illusion. Nevertheless saying that this guy is an idiot is ok if one say that 80% of traders behave like idiots on market, in fact from time to time everybody acts like an idiot and it is too late you have to undergo the consequences.

Quote from daniel_m:



well, my nose is blocked, i've been putting on a bit of weight and my favorite pen has just run out of ink. thanks for asking.

look, it's a sad story, everyone can see that. and i had a pretty good idea there'd be hoards of sympathetic ears coming along to offer their condolences. i thought i'd go the other way.

dropping $160k when the guy admits he had no idea what he was doing is idiocy beyond words (in my world -- feel free to disagree). it's obvious he was hung up on making his losses back, and that that's an easy trap to fall into, but i still call it idiotic.

and furthermore, i'll also tell you that i kinda get irritated when some schlep under illusions of grandeur (or in desperate need of income to supplant his ailing business) thinks he can just waltz into the market knowing nothing and make a go of it and then pour on the sob stories when it all goes south.
 
Hey Edison failed a 1000 times before he succeeded, he learned a 1000 ways in which it would'nt work...the 1001'th attempt...well that is history:D
 
The problem starts when those advertisements exhort how you too can make big money and either get rich quick or make a comfortable living.

The question which needs to be asked is "please show me your statements, ALL of them".

How many people ask that question, let alone receive the answer ?

The US is so trigger happy going to court that it amazes me that no-one has actually tried to recoup their losses in court claiming to have been misled.

Where is (your) Consumer Affairs Department (or whatever it is called) protecting the insuspecting albeit gullible public ?

I have attacked conmen before and all that happens is that the very people who got sucked in in the first place spring to the defence of the guru.

I guess it is just too hard a fact to face that they were misled and that there is no guru. Is the reason that it is just too hard to give up one's dreams ?

freealways
 
Quote from hii a_ooiioo_a:

My favorite use of candlesticks is when I'm planning a romantic and intimate evening. If I'm lucky I may even get a little T&A. The music I select to set the mood is not usually from the current charts, though. I go against the trend, in that way.


Lol that's good ... thanks for the laugh - I like it!


ken
 
Quote from hii a_ooiioo_a:

Yes, and Trading_Guy (the $160,000 loser) also steeped himself in TA, and clearly that alone is not a guarantee of success.

TA is bs all you have to do is watch the bids and offers. buy when they go up and sell when they go down
 
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