Do you even enjoy trading?

[michael21]

Should I re-name my thread kick the crap out of RCG?

 

[Optionpro007]

Most agreeable.

Quote from darkhorse:

Oh hell no. A thousand times no.

For me trading is like sex or pizza -- bad sex is still sex, cold pizza is still pizza.

I love markets, passionately love what I do, and love my 4 second home office commute most mornings. Even in those stretches when market conditions are absolutely shitty, I never forget how much I love it. When things are going well, I'm having so much fun it feels criminal.

It's the most fascinating job in the world, with the most freedom you could imagine, and, if you break through and get good at it, delivers a ridiculous paycheck to boot.

Like Steve Jobs once pointed out, anyone who is bitter, burnt out or demoralized too many days in a row should take a hard look in the mirror and maybe consider a change. Truly successful traders not only kick ass at what they do, they can't wait to fire up their screens every day. If your emotions are a millstone around your neck, you won't be able to compete with that.

 

[Optionpro007]

Most agreeable; except that bad sex is indeed, very bad.

Quote from darkhorse:

Oh hell no. A thousand times no.

For me trading is like sex or pizza -- bad sex is still sex, cold pizza is still pizza.

I love markets, passionately love what I do, and love my 4 second home office commute most mornings. Even in those stretches when market conditions are absolutely shitty, I never forget how much I love it. When things are going well, I'm having so much fun it feels criminal.

It's the most fascinating job in the world, with the most freedom you could imagine, and, if you break through and get good at it, delivers a ridiculous paycheck to boot.

Like Steve Jobs once pointed out, anyone who is bitter, burnt out or demoralized too many days in a row should take a hard look in the mirror and maybe consider a change. Truly successful traders not only kick ass at what they do, they can't wait to fire up their screens every day. If your emotions are a millstone around your neck, you won't be able to compete with that.

 

[darkhorse]

Quote from Optionpro007:

Most agreeable; except that bad sex is indeed, very bad.

Depends on who you're having it with I guess...

 

[Lucrum]

Quote from darkhorse:

Depends on who you're having it with I guess...

I never had any "bad" sex, some it is was just better than others.

Quote from michael21:

Should I re-name my thread kick the crap out of RCG?

Thread creep, scourge of forum threads the world over.

 

[WS_MJH]

Quote from darkhorse:

Oh hell no. A thousand times no.

For me trading is like sex or pizza -- bad sex is still sex, cold pizza is still pizza.

I love markets, passionately love what I do, and love my 4 second home office commute most mornings. Even in those stretches when market conditions are absolutely shitty, I never forget how much I love it. When things are going well, I'm having so much fun it feels criminal.

It's the most fascinating job in the world, with the most freedom you could imagine, and, if you break through and get good at it, delivers a ridiculous paycheck to boot.

Like Steve Jobs once pointed out, anyone who is bitter, burnt out or demoralized too many days in a row should take a hard look in the mirror and maybe consider a change. Truly successful traders not only kick ass at what they do, they can't wait to fire up their screens every day. If your emotions are a millstone around your neck, you won't be able to compete with that.

So much right with this post. You get a great paycheck without having to deal with clients, customers and the economy. It's your skills in the markets. Trading has been the most rewarding experience I had so far in my professional career. The only thing that I wish is that I started right after college.

 

[RCG Trader]

Quote from Maverick74:

OK, well just curious about this though. I think you are in your mid 40's no? I didn't even know you could go back into the guard at that age much less get them to pay for your school and re-enlist.

Of course it's never too late to go back to school for anything, but at your age did you really want to do that? And again, when you say disaster plan, I didn't think your current situation was a disaster. Are you maybe referring to if you lost that nursing job?

You have until you are 49 for my MOS.

 

[RCG Trader]

Quote from clightmarathon:

I did not read all his posts, but why not?
Many times with surrender , comes the solution and it just clicks.

I think that may have been the case.

 

[jem]

When I go to hospital functions with my wife. I talk to a lot doctors. In my opinion 80% of them are making far more than they would be making in any other job. I know they worked hard and deserve it. But it is one of the few remaining jobs which is seriously over paid. I happen to be doing another one. So I am not jealous.

If you can get med school paid for... how can you turn it down. It would be a bad trade.

 

[RCG Trader]

Quote from jem:

When I go to hospital functions with my wife. I talk to a lot doctors. In my opinion 80% of them are making far more than they would be making in any other job. I know they worked hard and deserve it. But it is one of the few remaining jobs which is seriously over paid. I happen to be doing another one. So I am not jealous.

If you can get med school paid for... how can you turn it down. It would be a bad trade.

The way doctors have to practice medicine is very demoralizing for many of them. I have talked to quite a few and if they had to do it all over again, they wouldn't. I have worked in jobs in nursing where I made six figures and hated life.

Trading is and always has been my passion, so I came out incredibly lucky I think to be able to do this.