This thread is funny
Here is a trading related story i have to share about that whole neo new age ''affirmative thinking'' stuff.
When i started tradind a few years ago, i kinda formed a partnership with a friend of mine who had just enrolled in the Traders international course and we agreed to rent a office together and trade together. It was fun at first.
We are now going our separate ways and here why.
This person had a very strong belief in the bible, every time something bad happened in his life, he would turn to the bible for answers. Every time he had hopes, he would pull out a passage backing up his dreams. And theres nothing wrong with that, so far.
As days were passing, and of course our trading was terrible and we were losing tons of money. I knew it was part of the process. But according to my partner, the reason was that somehow in our unconscious minds we had ''barriers'' and we were preventing our own success.
He then started providing me with copies of movies like ''what the bleep do we know'', ''the secret'', a book called ''spiritual marketing'', a bunch of CD's called ''paraliminals'', these cd appear to be some kind of new age ambiant music, but they allegedly contain special magic frequencies that will unlock certain part of your brain and make you better at everything.
The best one was when he bought a ''kit'' called ''GET EVERYTHING YOU WANT AND LIVE A EFFORT FREE LIFE'' (gold edition), a 4000$ buy, including a free voucher to have a one hour phone conversation with the guy who sells it. If it doesn't bring immediate results, its b ecause youre doing it wrong.
So here when we parted ways. For months when he would take losses (that means everyday), he would say something like ''i haven't done enough positive thinking this morning, i have to see myself as the perfect trader, then the market will do what i want''.
He was somehow convinced that working hard to become a trader was for losers, he would make millions just by wishing very hard for it. According to him, the markets are a reflection of your inner thinking.
While he was ''thinking positively'' i was learning Javascript and C# to be able to code stuff for esignal and ninja trader. I programmed a couple strategies, when one of them was really good (and its the one I'm still trading today), but without him.
we are still talking. today i make money, he lost more than 150 000$ in 2007.
Here is a trading related story i have to share about that whole neo new age ''affirmative thinking'' stuff.
When i started tradind a few years ago, i kinda formed a partnership with a friend of mine who had just enrolled in the Traders international course and we agreed to rent a office together and trade together. It was fun at first.
We are now going our separate ways and here why.
This person had a very strong belief in the bible, every time something bad happened in his life, he would turn to the bible for answers. Every time he had hopes, he would pull out a passage backing up his dreams. And theres nothing wrong with that, so far.
As days were passing, and of course our trading was terrible and we were losing tons of money. I knew it was part of the process. But according to my partner, the reason was that somehow in our unconscious minds we had ''barriers'' and we were preventing our own success.
He then started providing me with copies of movies like ''what the bleep do we know'', ''the secret'', a book called ''spiritual marketing'', a bunch of CD's called ''paraliminals'', these cd appear to be some kind of new age ambiant music, but they allegedly contain special magic frequencies that will unlock certain part of your brain and make you better at everything.
The best one was when he bought a ''kit'' called ''GET EVERYTHING YOU WANT AND LIVE A EFFORT FREE LIFE'' (gold edition), a 4000$ buy, including a free voucher to have a one hour phone conversation with the guy who sells it. If it doesn't bring immediate results, its b ecause youre doing it wrong.
So here when we parted ways. For months when he would take losses (that means everyday), he would say something like ''i haven't done enough positive thinking this morning, i have to see myself as the perfect trader, then the market will do what i want''.
He was somehow convinced that working hard to become a trader was for losers, he would make millions just by wishing very hard for it. According to him, the markets are a reflection of your inner thinking.
While he was ''thinking positively'' i was learning Javascript and C# to be able to code stuff for esignal and ninja trader. I programmed a couple strategies, when one of them was really good (and its the one I'm still trading today), but without him.
we are still talking. today i make money, he lost more than 150 000$ in 2007.
