Do full-time forex traders exist or is it just make believe?

SimpleTrades · Apr 28, 2013

Quote from oldtime:

it never ceases to amaze me, just how small a man's mind can get

no matter what you are pissed off about

I can get pissed off about something that is even smaller

maybe that is how they discovered the big bang

everybody just started bitching about smaller and smaller things

until there was nothing smaller to bitch about

and then I guess it all just exploded

and they started bitching again

Its really quite simple. There are a lot of frustrated people on this forum losing a bunch of money. Rather than destroying computers, banging holes in the walls, we fight with each other. Productive, isn't it?

oldtime · Apr 28, 2013

Quote from SimpleTrades:

Its really quite simple. There are a lot of frustrated people on this forum losing a bunch of money. Rather than destroying computers, banging holes in the walls, we fight with each other. Productive, isn't it?

well, it beats destroying computers

SimpleTrades · Apr 28, 2013

Quote from oldtime:

well, it beats destroying computers

Give it another couple of years and you apple lovers will be chucking them out the window. urrrrr.... the computers, that is.

RCG Trader · Apr 28, 2013

Quote from SimpleTrades:

Productive, isn't it?

Some think it can be. It's just another form of phishing. Here it is done by the strugglers trying to goad successful traders into revealing an entire trading strategy. That's what goes on here most of the time.

RCG Trader · Apr 28, 2013

Quote from marketsurfer:

Cornix,

You first struck me as a legit trader, now I'm not so sure. First you caught the mini crash in another thread and your trading buddies must be the best on earth. They never lose, just see above. It's really starting to sound ridiculous.

surf

Or maybe he had a sell stop in the market that happened to get hit. His alerts went off, and he had an entire five minutes to manage the trade.

Lucrum · Apr 28, 2013

Quote from RCG Trader:

Some think it can be. It's just another form of phishing. Here it is done by the strugglers trying to goad successful traders into revealing an entire trading strategy. That's what goes on here most of the time.

So says the guy whose $1 journal (not a typo) was relegated to chit chat for lying about results?

http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=254267&perpage=10&pagenumber=15

SimpleTrades · Apr 28, 2013

Quote from RCG Trader:

Some think it can be. It's just another form of phishing. Here it is done by the strugglers trying to goad successful traders into revealing an entire trading strategy. That's what goes on here most of the time.

Actually, what I see is a whole bunch of "traders" being exposed as frauds. In other words, we have the wanabees goading the pretenders.

RCG Trader · Apr 28, 2013

Quote from Lucrum:

So says the guy whose $1 journal (not a typo) was relegated to chit chat for lying about results?

http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=254267&perpage=10&pagenumber=15

Delusions, Lucrum. As per your usual.

atticus · Apr 28, 2013

Quote from RCG Trader:

Delusions, Lucrum. As per your usual.

Quote from Magna:

I tend to give people the benefit of the doubt at first, as a lady friend once said to me, "I'd rather trust people initially and occasionally get burned, then not and turn cold inside". Admittedly there's a trade-off and this "journal" is an example of that. When it becomes obvious that someone is just yanking your chain they lose all credibility, and I have a long memory. Thanks to those who have pointed out the follies within, and this thread deserves all the respect of Chit Chat.

cornix · Apr 28, 2013

Quote from marketsurfer:

It is possible, folks have certainly done it but its akin to winning the lottery and not skill based. Unless its exploiting some aberration at the dealer--- that I have seen done and did it myself when mini accounts use to lag. surf

Well, Atticus told that man made something close (or even inside) 8 figures. Hardly dealer would not notice that.

I agree on aberration, though, played box options with Oanda heavily myself back in 2005, when they had IV priced somewhat wrong in front of NFP releases.