do you believe "Scientist" has "over $100k" in his trading account?
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So I'm away for a few days and what must I see? GG started his 5th or something thread about me within about 2 weeks - His personal crusade is starting to take psychosomatic dimensions!
But not only does GG (aka THE M*N / sup*r-ego / Ma*reen D*wd etc) commit all his time to posting and voting here in his own interest, but also does he drag along his boyfriend LongSh*t (aka F*sterPushyc*t / Dik Burns etc), as usual.
You two must be the most pathetic loser troll couple on ET, and I doubt anyone could count all your handles... Yet I also pity you. What a sad life you two must have...
Dear Fellow Trading Brethren,
The following post is a part reply to GG, yet more intended for those here I like to call friends... The reason I seem to have "disappeared" for a week is that I've realized my dream and moved from my down south beach house to a top-top location. I think given all the night clubs, cafe's and real friends just 'round the corner, I will be spending a lot less time on ET soon. I've worked too hard too long enough, it's time to start enjoying life now.
To comment on GG's question:
1) Where did I tell you or anybody here on a public internet board how much I have? You mean net worth? Since I'm an active trader, more than 100K is basically implied anyway, isn't it???
If I was being honest, all I would reply to your 100K suggestion would be: "LOL". I've never looked at things from the "ant perspective" you guys seem to have. I tend to compare myself to those "way above", such as Justin Frankel who, at age 19, sold WinAmp for $100M. That is "M", not "K". This is what keeps me down to earth.
2) What's the point in questioning my truthfulness? Quite frankly, who, other than trolls with too much time on their hands, give a flying toot whether some dubious anonymous internet board member is "truthful" or not? Am I a "fake" or "liar"??? Who cares?! What benefit, financial or moral, could you derive from that knowledge?
None, for what I can see. However, an exception would apply to someone who lives his life in a community like this, I.e. spends all his time here and is always concerned about others since he is so shy of mirrors, afraid of looking into his own sad truth. I have had some funny private chats over time, and GG was mentioned occassionally as the example of the "ultimate loser". Common portraits are "He must be a lazy sit-home geek living off his daddy's share portfolio", "When does he actually work?" and the like. How about yourself, Gekko?
I suggest you stop worrying about who is "fake" or who is "real" and instead just filter the good from the bad information. Every ET member will at some point post something useful and at another point something useless. It is up to none but your own "filtering mechanism" to determine what is what. You are also welcome to use the ignore feature.
Regarding all the quotes you so nicely collected - Thanks a lot. I must admit in hindsight and so nicely cropped out of context, some of these may seem pretty pretentious to someone like GG and LongShot, I probably shouldn't have mentioned them.
Didn't realize I seemed that "boasting". Consider, I never claimed I own a huge yacht, a Ferrari, Jaguar, 7 Series BMW, or a house on the beach (which I also clarified is rented). I have never, on ET, claimed to be a genius, to possess anything grandous or to be rich (go ahead, prove me wrong in any of these). And, give me a break, so far I haven't told lies here, either. Whether you believe it or not is none of my business!
I have worked extremely hard for the last 4 years, running a full-time business during the day and half/full time market watching/trading during the night, rarely sleeping more than 4-5 hours. I was working everyday in my JDM business from 9:00-18:00 and then trading from 21:30-4:15 my time, you do the maths. I haven't really enjoyed my life for quite a few years, much unlike Gekko, who goes out and gets drunk. I am not a genius, I have just worked hard. Anyone can do it. And now I can say with confidence to anybody "Fuck You!", because I know what I did and I know what I can do. I'm not going to let any losers, envy-ridden people and anklebiters take a bite of my success. I can live with it, because I am planning to, and know I will financially retire by 25. I am on the way to where I want to be. I can do anything I like. You call it pompous, I call it positive, enabling attitude.
I have given up a good slice of some of the best time of my life to build what I have and I have been and am being rewarded for it. You anklebiters can spew, draining your own energy, but you can't stop my progress. Your bitching only reinforces my feeling of success. No, I am not a genius or a prodigy, nor am I the most successful entrepreneur for my age. But yes, I am fucking proud, not for what I've achieved but for all the negative people and attitudes I've dealt with and overcome in my life. None of this can affect me anymore. That's why I'm free. Freedom is everything. I am proud to be free. I can fly with the eagles.
Myself, I obviously haven't been here for a few days, and to GG's comfort, I am now leaving for good my sweet beach house on the sea & river, to move into the city, mainly for the lifestyle and the whopping internet connection. My dream has come true: I have finally gotten hold of a top-notch place; A ripping 2-storey, sea view, 2-balcony, designer apartment very close to the CBD. I am 101% thrilled - No more gardeners to employ, no huge house to look after, no security worries, no nothing. And the lifestyle of Perth's most groovy suburb. Even a garage to keep hooligans like GG and LongShot off my car! I can already visualize my office & bedroom on the upper storey... Whew! And the girls ... My god! This suburb is full of gorgeous girls !!!
Tough decision it sure was... I had to give up being close to my jewellery business, yet I can drive down there once every couple of weeks to check on things and do some work, which gives me an excuse for holidays down south, I can stay at friends' and family and I can now unquestionably claim all car expenses as I like as business expenses. Now that I can get broadband, I can also get my pro brokerage & exchange seat. Everything falls into place. Life is great!
Anybody trying to be helpful gets bashed on ET anyway, even if most of it is just GG / FPC anyway. Why do I need to explain why I want 4GB of RAM??? Instead, I will save that time, and keep communicating privately with a nice selection of trading buddies and friends I've collected here. I'm getting way PM than I want to get, anyway. I will have a lot more time for talks with serious people, a lot more rarely mix with "the public", "common crowd" or communicate with them, priorities set. I have also, from all the driving 'round looking for places, rediscovered my taste for real estate, and will be spending a lot more time in that field as well...
As the saying goes: "If you want to fly with the eagles, don't mix with turkeys..."
Gratefully I salute TM_Direct, aphexcoil, gordy's dad and many other smart ET members for putting that little bit of effort into fighting the spread of troll infection by GG and FPC which, similarly to athlete's foot, just doesn't seem to want to go away.
It seems that eventually, all "decent" traders seem to move away from posting on this forum, due to the very immature code of conduct and troll responses. As for me, I will be following in those footsteps, yet I'll be coming here occassionally, checking on "the boys" and seeing if there's a good post here or there.
Another great step in the relentless pursuit of excellence. What can I say? LIFE IS GREAT !!!
Have a nice one!
Scientist.
Just read the rest of this thread... I'm afraid you'll have to eat your shoe...
I'm not in an "earring business", earrings only make about 5% of my range. I am (or was), by definition, a jewellery designer, manufacturer & retailer, so I owned all three processes, getting every mark-up in the chain, for maximum profit.
Regarding $10 for earrings - I doubt I (or anyone else) who designs jewellery could survive on prices like that. I don't sell chinese imports, I sell designer jewellery. My cheapest pair of earrings currently available is in Sterling Silver, and it retails for $479. PM me if you're interesting in further info / ordering.
Other than that, I'm mainly into rings & bracelets, one of my nicest ones is attached below. The price on the poster cut-out below is only ~13K, but it retails for a tad more now. And that bracelet is just the beginning. I have some gold & platinum items, set with high-caratage finest Royal Blue Ceylon Sapphires, I also have finest grade Burmese Rubies and finest South Sea Pearls.
I cater mainly for the highest income classes in Australia and internationally, and I cannot complain about my doings. Highest price items and the like are considered for individual design, if anybody wealthy here feels like a gift - Feel free to PM me!
If you want to know why I'm so "incredibly" successful - Visit me and make sure you bring your girlfriend.
Regarding all the other comments and quotes of mine on this thread - There are no lies amongst them for what I could see, yet it seems everybody thinks I'm pretending to be a superhero!
I showed my brother the collection of quotes here, and he said "No wonder they think you're full of it! Nobody's gonna believe you this stuff man, even if you did it. Most people don't even have their own car at your age! Just shut up!"
I value my brother's advice and will honor it. I realized that a lot of my statements on ET seem "over the top" to the average observer. I am very sorry if I have come across as insincere at times or have stepped on the toes of people who haven't achieved similar. I never intended such or malice, and have really always done my best to be 100% honest and help people on this board. This includes both of GG and FPC, who requested my help and then kicked my efforts with feet. You two are such ungrateful creatures.
Lesson of wealth I learnt today: Best is to pretend to the public I'm poor and clueless...
Good Trading to you all!
Scientist.
I can't understand what the problem is.
Don't you think a guy of 22, who's planning on buying his first Helicopter thanks to the money he won by trading, drives a NSX , etc etc. can have a 100K account?
You'd better read the biography of B.Gates
you should be glad he shares his great mind with us.
Now it's up to you to decide whether this post is ironic or not...
One thing for sure, you guys make me laugh a lot
Don't you think a guy of 22, who's planning on buying his first Helicopter thanks to the money he won by trading, drives a NSX , etc etc. can have a 100K account?
You'd better read the biography of B.Gates
you should be glad he shares his great mind with us.
Now it's up to you to decide whether this post is ironic or not...
One thing for sure, you guys make me laugh a lot
LOL mark1, this post made me laugh! Yet I am not worth comparison to Bill Gates (and I'm glad about it).Quote from mark1:
I can't understand what the problem is.
Don't you think a guy of 22, who's planning on buying his first Helicopter thanks to the money he won by trading, drives a NSX , etc etc. can have a 100K account?
You'd better read the biography of B.Gates
you should be glad he shares his great mind with us.
One thing for sure, you guys make me laugh a lot
What made me laugh is that I have a mugshot of Billy from December 77 - When he was 22 and only months from my current age. He was pulled over by Albuquerque highway police for speeding to get to a party in his freshly acquired sports car, bought just after he realized he was a multi-millionaire - Ironically something that happened to me, too - Days after I got mine (I was going 126 - into the laser - ouch!). Yet I can't claim to have such a "funky" taste of dress code (Star Trek uniform with flower-power collar???)
Don't know about the helicopter, though... Now that I'm living in the city, I don't really need it anymore...
-S
GG, you've got to admit...Scientist is either an incredibly skillful businessman, or an incredibly skillful liar. I see no possible third option.
I'm pretty sure I've told you how much money I had accumulated, and at what age. If you believed me, why don't you believe him? Serious question.
Remember when candletrader was caught in a blatant lie, claiming he dated a certain hottie, and posting a pic of some Oriental celebrity, thinking no one here would recognize her? Unless you can catch Scientist in a similar botched tall-tale, you might want to give him a little reasonable doubt and back off.
I'm not one to believe everything I hear or read...But Scientist's exploits deserve some measure of agnosticism, don't they? Now, if he were to ask anyone here for a capital investment in his business, while beaming about how great an opportunity this is...I would instantly assume everything he said was a lie.
I tend to give people a bit of slack until they ask me to write a check.
I'm pretty sure I've told you how much money I had accumulated, and at what age. If you believed me, why don't you believe him? Serious question.
Remember when candletrader was caught in a blatant lie, claiming he dated a certain hottie, and posting a pic of some Oriental celebrity, thinking no one here would recognize her? Unless you can catch Scientist in a similar botched tall-tale, you might want to give him a little reasonable doubt and back off.
I'm not one to believe everything I hear or read...But Scientist's exploits deserve some measure of agnosticism, don't they? Now, if he were to ask anyone here for a capital investment in his business, while beaming about how great an opportunity this is...I would instantly assume everything he said was a lie.
I tend to give people a bit of slack until they ask me to write a check.
BTW, scientist... your Time For Love bracelet is aesthetically pleasing, but the raw materials couldn't possibly have cost you over $1,000 USD. To think that people happily pay about ten times that amount and think they're getting 'an investment for eternity'...lol.
Reminds me of a certain PT Barnum quote.
Reminds me of a certain PT Barnum quote.
A few very smart points here. I doubt I'm such a skillfull businessman, but I am sure I am not a skillful liar. I wish I were, but as they say "lies have short legs". Liars have to have an extremely good memory. If I had such tremendous lying skills to pull up so many lies and still fool anybody here after over 1,000 posts - I would be wasting my "talent" as a trader! I'd qualify for president! :eek:
That's something I've heard before. The truth is the real value is a lot more than that. Sure, the silver is only worth ~$100 (the silver in most bracelets out there is worth about $1-10), but the gold is 24carat, to the value of over $3K retail. The diamond is worth a lot, and it alone would retail for over $20K at most "jewellery shops" out there! :eek:
The reality is many or most jewellers, for understandable reasons (city rent, which I never paid!), live on markups of 1,000-10,000%. Remember that next time you visit a jeweller! A lot of my work, including that bracelet, has much lower mark-ups than that, and many items are very limited edition or absolute one-offs! "Under promise and over deliver" is a 'secret' motto that brought me a lot of success in business.
But I needn't worry no longer... Listening to Miles Davis... Moving to the city on Tuesday... My last free weekend down south...
I won't be there next week... So come on guys, flame me while you still can... I'm all game and nothing to hide.
-S
actually, no, this is the only thread. i'm not super-ego, etc.
some people in this thread have made it seem like i'm just automatically doubting Scientist because of the $ figures he claims. that is not the case. i even had over $100k at one point. lol
i'm doubting Scientist from his collective posts. the ones i posted in this thread are just a fraction of his claims. i mean, come on, he even admits he's been trading with real money just over a year! but he's mastered it already and needs something more challenging! with like 4 losing days in the last 6 months--due to commissions none-the-less! LMAO riiiiiight.....
check out how he handled the IQ mess. does his post look like a joke at all? no. but after everyone called him on it--catching him boasting a IQ result higher than the test can score--then he said it was a joke! SCIENTIST IS THE JOKE.
Liar or comedian?
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