Fulltime trading weird experience

Quote from ElectricSavant:

You would be surprised at how many people feel the way I do...they just do not have the guts to post it...

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Fair enough. I like a good degree of social interaction myself.
 
Quote from upandcomer:

No offense, but you sound like a complete d-bag. Unless you are trying to sell your neighbors something, be yourself. Have a few beers with them in your garage... make friends. Your neighbors seeing you with nice cloths/car/watches/women, does nothing to improve your performance- It probably hampers it. You sound like a materialistic prick.
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the one thing i get called a lot in real life is. "asshole" , "jerk"

I enjoy it quite frankly :) I am being myself , I'm a professsional money manager, I calculate people I want to make friends with based on my reward from them. This sort of personality works wonders, thats why I never change it.
 
I think what ElectricSavant writes has a grain of truth to it. While I do not shy from human encounters, it is getting tiresome when the discussion is about the same shit, and everybody is trying to be in agreement with everyone else. How much can one talk about trivial stuff? All this fakness and lack of thinking is becoming more and more commonplace. It sometimes comes to the point of should I go and attend this event or should I stay home and read a good book? Maybe I should get a dog? LOL
 
Quote from innovest_11:

My neighbor are all retired people in their 60s, I'm just in my early 40s, so i didn't say i'm retired, just in case they think i relying on my spouse who is working

The only days when i feel good to move around neighborhood is when my spouse is around when she's on leave, I have company rather than alone.

And when the day happened to be losing money, the feeling sucks, the thought always strike me: "did i make the right move going fulltime?", though i know for sure, losses is bound to happen, just have to do some risk/account management
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As long as you are pulling your own load, it is none of their business. They are retired so they have nothing to do but spend their free time sitcking their nose in your business. I would make jokes and always be smiling, you know baffle them with bullshit.
 
Find an arcade, trade there and enjoy.

Or, teach people how to trade, especially friends. One of the reasons I picked up trading was, not only could I help myself, once I do that, I could help people I love.
 
Moses doing the Laundry

Quote from saxon22:

I think what ElectricSavant writes has a grain of truth to it. While I do not shy from human encounters, it is getting tiresome when the discussion is about the same shit, and everybody is trying to be in agreement with everyone else. How much can one talk about trivial stuff? All this fakness and lack of thinking is becoming more and more commonplace. It sometimes comes to the point of should I go and attend this event or should I stay home and read a good book? Maybe I should get a dog? LOL
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Quote from ElectricSavant:

I have always stayed to myself and wifey hates to socialize. We stay to ourselves and blessed to have a home in a great neighborhood...Neighbors that are not seen and heard are the best neighbors...and thats what we have...I saw a neighbor once when he opened his electric garage door with his remote when coming home..We all have gardening maintenence in these spacious ranch homes (3,000 sq ft) so there is not the weekend danger of seeing a neighbor working on his yard...its is just great and I have no plans to move.

I never answer the door if the doorbell rings when I am in the back of the house trading...it is usually a solicitor anyways...

Just tell your neighbors that you grow medical marijuana if they pester you...or...your an agent for the IRS...That usually works and they stay away. I told one neighbor that moved away that I was a mortician...:) (I later discovered that both of them were terminally ill and moved to Florida)

Wifey and I do not like bars and we cook at home more than we eat out. Wifey stays very professional at work and avoids socializing with other work associates.

We have our animals, which are like our children and this is the way we choose to live. Try it ...you will like it...People just take, animals only give.

At the Gym we never talk to anybody, we just get to the business of training. The gym is a couple of long blocks from Home. Sometimes we will get a taker trying to talk to us and we simply stay pretty closed-mouth and avoid them in the future. I love our Gym...we do not need to check in the old fashioned way...we simply enter a number on the keypad and the scanner scans our fingerprint and we are in....no interaction with the staff.

The only person allowed in our home or our rental is a retired engineer out of work and is a great handyman and he does the job and we pay him 25 bucks an hour and there is little conversation. He is meticulous and we are both happy with the arrangement. We see him just a few times a year and he has never had to return to fix something that he did not fix correctly.

The biggest social event is when we go to the dog park..Wifey is a groomer and many people know her there, evnthough we drive across town to get to it...damn...The Dog park would be so much nicer if the takers would just leave us alone.

On ET I socialize a lot and relate to traders. I truely like traders and can identify with them. But I do not wish to meet anybody here in person. I have done joint projects with several here and I consider them friends, but it is merely professional and remains that way.

One time someone asked me what my political affiliation was...I used to say I was a capitalist..but that is getting to be a dirty word more and more these days...(I am closest to being Libertarian)

I think bridaling the tongue has been a great challenge for me, but Wifey has taught me a lot about when to speak and when to not...The less spoken the more comfortable I am.

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This is one of my favourite posts... there is a lot of humour and truth in what you say...If others are feeling sympathy for you, I think they have misunderstood.

You just worked out what works for you, and stopped trying to fit other people's ideals.

Your are being yourself, and that is great.
 
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