Black Monday - December 31, 2012

[oldtime]

Quote from oldtime:

glad you asked, I certainly didn't quit because I had finally made enough money

that is a very stressful lifestyle, ok for a young man, but I got a late start and already was older than most scalpers

most my age had large positions in stocks, and in those days, they made more in one day than I made in a year scalping for $12.50

but it was crazy, and I would put them on and take them off all day long, but occasionally I would end up net long or short on the close

and I saw just how much you could make or lose holding just three es contracts over night

and further more

the reason I can call myself a succssful es trader is

when I got divorced, my good mortgage which was almost payed off, got decimated when I had to refinance at the top of the housing market to pay her off

I had worked real jobs in the past and were IRA protected, and they got cut by 50%

Even my trading account got cut by 50%

I quicky found a new girlfriend

and she wanted me to travel with her

but I was watching es

and I knew a big trade was coming

it hadn't been doing shit for the longest time

so the time came, she was putting pressure on me to go to Mexico with her, in her 3 cylinder chevy with her new as yet untrained puppy shitzue

so I just put it all on long es and turned the computer off

by the time we got to Vera Cruz, I went to an internet cafe, and checked my IB account.

and there it was, with my old trading screen set up just like the way it always was

and I knew, I would never have to worry about money again

I would like to tell you that I closed it out right there and then

But I waited until I got back to USA

By then it had pulled back a bit

and I got home to my old office and got flat

and for five years, I never read a newspaper (except the sports page) Never checked the market (even though I still had a position in a Vangaurd S&P 500 fund) never knew about the crash.

Just totally chilled out

Thank G-d I finally got alone again

and started trading again

which apparently is all I'm cut out for

Lord knows I certainly didn't succeed at anything else I tried

 

[oldtime]

and that is why I will never trade es again

for a while, I started fooling around with that es vs ym

I really liked it

and for the most part it was going swimmingly well

until it came time to get flat the ym and go naked the es

and then all the old memories came back

and then I said, "No, not again, we are never going back to those old days."

 

[Daring]

Quote from oldtime:

and further more

the reason I can call myself a succssful es trader is

when I got divorced, my good mortgage which was almost payed off, got decimated when I had to refinance at the top of the housing market to pay her off

I had worked real jobs in the past and were IRA protected, and they got cut by 50%

Even my trading account got cut by 50%

I quicky found a new girlfriend

and she wanted me to travel with her

but I was watching es

and I knew a big trade was coming

it hadn't been doing shit for the longest time

so the time came, she was putting pressure on me to go to Mexico with her, in her 3 cylinder chevy with her new as yet untrained puppy shitzue

so I just put it all on long es and turned the computer off

by the time we got to Vera Cruz, I went to an internet cafe, and checked my IB account.

and there it was, with my old trading screen set up just like the way it always was

and I knew, I would never have to worry about money again

I would like to tell you that I closed it out right there and then

But I waited until I got back to USA

By then it had pulled back a bit

and I got home to my old office and got flat

and for five years, I never read a newspaper (except the sports page) Never checked the market (even though I still had a position in a Vangaurd S&P 500 fund) never knew about the crash.

Just totally chilled out

Thank G-d I finally got alone again

and started trading again

which apparently is all I'm cut out for

Lord knows I certainly didn't succeed at anything else I tried

ROFL

 

[oldtime]

it aint that funny

I actually spent many years with that girl friend

the weather here in Indiana is very shitty, usually 360 days of the year

we spent our winters down in Mexico

and our summers up there in Wisconsin, all the way out to Washington State

and she was a very good fisherman

and that's where the problems started

down in Mexico, they don't fish with rods and reels

the women there don't wear pants or jeans

they pull up their skirts and fish with nets

 

[iceman1]

12-31-12 03:23 PM

Quote from iceman1:

Quote from bond_trad3r:

By the rumor, sell the news.

And really. Who gives a shit if Obama and the Senate become bffs and sign a deal. The house is still gonna reject it.



You don't give up - do you?!

I hate to sound like the chump at the table but I actually see the first TEN days of 2013 being higher.

Ok, fade me...



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+8

lol

 

[SeventhCereal]

THe guy has a name of a 13 year old, who can take him seriously? anyway you lost all credibility as far as i'm concerned not that you had much to begin with.

Quote from bond_trad3r:

I might actually get this one right this time!

History never repeats...

(Then again, the markets only crash in Octobers.)