Originally posted by Funster
Someone that sticks it out for 5 years is not afraid of tears.
yes.. i think you missed my point.. its merely an observation that you can either try to improve your trading or you can cry about how its all so unfair.. but the two dont co-exist..
Originally posted by Funster
This is the kinda guy I am: For 5 years I sold door to door home improvements when I was a teenager. Every other door was a f**k off and occasional guy chasing me down the road with a machete. Hey I was making money. If I got stabbed once a week I would not have cared.
I have a thick skin. At the same time I have produced commercial computer games and utilties programmed in machine code on the commodore 64, so am probably considered a brainbox.
see, now we are getting somewhere.. i used to be a salesman as well.. i worked as a hired gun for two of the larger auto repair franchisors.. to be good in that game you have to be disciplined, focused and determined.. i also developed thick skin as i literally had people screaming obscenities at me every day and it was my job to calm them down and make the sale.. honestly, i think this is a source of one of my trading "demons" that comes around from time to time.. my skin is so thick that the market can be making higher highs and higher lows.. but i think the market is weak.. so i look for a possible reversal.. that stops me, but i have thick skin, i can take rejection and jump right back into the game without a flinch.. so i find another reversal point and short again.. this one stops me.. now im more determined than ever to catch the reversal.. so i short every little hesitation.. short, stop.. short, stop.. and finally i get the reversal, and then it goes in my favor.. but ive taken so many stops that i cant get out when the market gives exit signal.. hell no, the market isnt going to take my money like that!!.. so i hang on, until that trade stops me too.. sound at all familiar? to be successful as a trader, we have to submit to what the market wants to do.. its the exact opposite of what you and i have done for years..
btw, my first computer was a Vic20.. man i loved that thing =)
Originally posted by Funster
I am sorry but if someone like me, who also happens to have an excess of capital to play with, cannot make it in the markets perhaps you should sit up and listen.
As far as I know there is no one in the forbes list who has made it as a sole trader. This business is pure snake oil.
well im not listening.. because ive been trading for over 2 years and have far more than i started with.. ive taken my share of blows along the way, but im in this because i love the game.. i love the freedom.. and because striving to reach each new level of success at this forces me to learn more about myself.. your problem is that you think you possess all of the qualities that should make for the successful trader, when in fact you possess only the skills and emotional makeup of a losing trader.. the market will either humble you or it will beat you..
good luck in your new endeavors..
-qwik