Quote from TsunTzu:
Personally I think trading is a lot simpler than that.
No Sir, it is NOT.
Trading is the sweetest creme de la creme, yet hardest, profession in workdom for a number of reasons, but most importantly because of the enormous freedom it affords the successful warrior. Think about it .... the ability to walk away from the massive HERD of 6-8 billion (and counting) who go to some form of slave 9-5 job daily - ((
ONLY EXCEPTION AT ET = deadbroke = always (99.5% of this lifetime) an independent, always a lone warrior on the fringes of society = always hunting for my meals )) .... to do what? ... so they can buy nice things for the "body" and look nice so the "body" can procreate/mate/family etc., ... (the spirit needs none of these things, but trapped in a body he is forced to comply, therefore the escapism from such provides him with a superior existence in jail.
Successful trading allows the warrior to bypass all this stupidity as a total lone operator with startup costs negligible for all practical purposes. The freedom of the successful trader is nonpareil in the real world. It is for this very reason that the PHYSICAL UNIVERSE by virtue of its nature demands that achieving such is extremely difficult. And so it is borne out in real life by the stats at brokerages etc.. The majority lose big and lose big consistently. Of the 5% that win only a very tiny % of that win really big.
That is the truth of it.
A fellow who enters this game has GOTTA at least know the size and capability of the enemy if he is going to ever become successful. And the danger in TRADING is multifaceted in that the enemy lies not only exterior to the warrior, which being surrounded and bombarded from 360 degrees is already past his tolerance limit, then add to it the DEVIL = treachery = sabotage WITHIN and you have the makings of the 95% loser syndrome.
That he gets knocked down several times and rises again to fight is a huge +++++, so much in the + column that the UNIVERSE only rewards such individuals and these prizes are given off in terms of decades or centuries to a very select few.
I have no doubt that I will be one such individual but therein lies the ultimate trap # 2, namely, so does every other miss goody2shoes at ET and in the world at large. It stinks, man.
