i'm not asking anybody to discuss anything they don't want to. participating in the research, or going on camera doesn't mean somebody has to spill all the beans...i'm not interested in your stradegies or 'secret information'. so if you're saying day trading is a solitary, private practice, OK, but I think that's secondary to whether somebody would want to work on this project.
Documentary about day trading
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no but I think my question posed to your question answers that question.
may be it answered to you but not to me 
you basically agree that the vanity is probably the only reason for participation
and you asking what wrong with it?
nothing wrong, imho
but those whom survive in this business probably has no vanity left (if it ever was), market killed it in them long time ago...
so like i said i see no reasons for participation,
others probably do not see it as well, hence - no one is contacting you
wait until another great bull market al-a 90-s will happen, during it, like mushrooms puping after the rain many so called daytaders will pup-up.. and they will be the one who movies will be make about (and there were movies that were made about daytadertrs at that time)...
where are those daytaderts know ? they all dead ...as daytaders..., why dead ? because they never were actually daytaders.. and therefore movies that made about them were lies...
if you will not make move that is good imho becouse not able to make it will be in fact the truth
and truce in our case is silence
you basically agree that the vanity is probably the only reason for participation
and you asking what wrong with it?
nothing wrong, imho
but those whom survive in this business probably has no vanity left (if it ever was), market killed it in them long time ago...
so like i said i see no reasons for participation,
others probably do not see it as well, hence - no one is contacting you
wait until another great bull market al-a 90-s will happen, during it, like mushrooms puping after the rain many so called daytaders will pup-up.. and they will be the one who movies will be make about (and there were movies that were made about daytadertrs at that time)...
where are those daytaderts know ? they all dead ...as daytaders..., why dead ? because they never were actually daytaders.. and therefore movies that made about them were lies...
if you will not make move that is good imho becouse not able to make it will be in fact the truth
and truce in our case is silence
participating in a work of art might be cathartic for somebody, secondly offer a platform to express their opinions on a matter, thirdly, be enlightening as a form of co-research with somebody from a different field of study or expertise.
qxr makes an important point, ego (vanity) can be lethal to the profitable day trader. In order to be successful, we have to admit to being wrong....a lot. We do this by taking losses. I hope that you are not going into this project with the notion that you are dealing with a homogeneous population. Day traders are as individual and varied as any other profession. In any event good luck.
in no way have i expressed that the multitude of people in finance are some homogenous blob, not sure where you're getting that from. i said that wanting to participate for vain reasons isn't necessarily a bad thing. i think vanity in the sense of wanting to be on camera, and vanity in the sense of trading (maybe hyperconfidence, stubborness, however you might apply this trait to finance) are very different things. Obviously there exist amazing, amazing businessmen who are amazingly, amazingly vain...
In a corporate setting one can hide behind political talent, positioning numbers, spin etc. With trading, there is nowhere to hide, no twisting the truth. You make a decision and that decision has obvious consequence, quickly shown. One must be able to distinguish between ego and self confidence. Talent and knowledge can get you by for a period but vanity will ultimately blow you up.
The documentary will be published where or under what project ???
You take the cake as the most articulate degen ever to post on elite--- seriously, what is wrong with you?