First, let me start with saying this -- I could care less what you think. There is an "ignore" feature on this board -- I'm sure many have used it on me already. That's life. Some people naturally dislike others. However, it isn't my job to come here to be liked.
Second, I start serious discussions. I try to contribute to this community. I lurked this board before I started posting, and it was mainly filled with a bunch of rambling arguements, egotistical thrashing and verbal assaults.
Nobody was really talking about trading, so I started my presense here on the controversial side by stating I would turn 5k into 1 million. That really got people itching to hammer at me -- which was quite a riot at the time.
However, since then, I've done nothing but try to discuss trading, call people at their bullshit and keep things focused on one thing -- trading and having a good time. If you can't do both, why come here to read and post? It shouldn't be all academic, but a few posts should talk about trading every once in the while.
AMEN! Alphie is gonna get his ass kicked with real money and then he'll slow to a few posts a day and then disappear altogether.
Savage
No, I am not going to get my "assed kicked." I am going to tread water and keep from drowning the first several weeks. Over the next few months, I will learn and adapt to the market -- like I have done with every other challenge in my life. One year from now, I guarantee you will be begging me to give you tips on how I trade. Is that egotistical of me to say? No, I am just confident in my abilities -- both mental, analytical and adaptive.
To me, the market paints a new picture every day. As a trader, I look at it more and more as an art and less of a science. It is my job to take the painting as it progresses and determine the style of the current day's painting. Is it a Rembrant, Picasso -- perhaps a Monet? I must then adapt to the market and "be with the market" and place myself in a position to move with the market with absense of fear, hesitation and concern of failure. I will make bad trades. I will have losing days. I may lose my entire 5k the first time around -- but make no mistakes about this, Savage, I am not going anywhere.
I am determined to be patient with myself and the market and take whatever babysteps are necessary to adapt to the environment of trading. I will learn to recognize myself as a person better through doing so.
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You have every right to read whatever posts you find noteworthy, but let me tell you this -- you are in no position to judge who will fail as a trader and who will succeed. Your only right is to ignore me if you so choose -- believe me, I will not lose any sleep over it.
I will continue to exist here, evolve, grow and learn more. Perhaps in months or years down the road, I will become a market wizard. Perhaps I will not -- but the most important thing for me is to say that I gave it my heart and soul and I was passionate about doing it -- and for those reasons, I could never truly fail -- only lose money.
