I walked away from trading with nothing after more than five years.

[Xela]

That's one way to put it. But in short, he's lower than whale shit!

Lol - it was only my reluctance to perpetuate any conversation with him that dissuaded me from asking "How's that working out for you?".

 

[NeoTrader]

the reduction of women in Western society to a sociocultural "submissive" stereotype

Chill out...
I don't know where western women get this shit from...
Go live in Yemen or Saudi Arabia and then you'll see what a "sociocultural submissive stereotype" REALLY feels like...

 

[Xela]

Go live in Yemen or Saudi Arabia and then you'll see what a "sociocultural submissive stereotype" REALLY feels like...

I'm aware of that, thanks: that was why I specified "Western society".

 

[NeoTrader]

I'm aware of that, thanks: that was why I specified "Western society".

It doesn't seem like it... If you were aware of it, you wouldn't be complaining of "such a problem" in "WESTERN society", where the problem fortunately doesn't exist anymore.

 

[learner2007]

t doesn't seem like it... If you were aware of it, you wouldn't be complaining of "such a problem" in "WESTERN society", where the problem fortunately doesn't exist anymore.

Trump?

 

[NeoTrader]

Trump?

No, just a thinking being.

 

[learner2007]

No, just a thinking being.

Yeah, just as the kanji you use, Trump and the likes of him, all 固執 that it doesn't exist!

 

[jinxu]

I don't either, but I do see plenty of supermodels commenting in interviews that they find it (surprisingly?) difficult to get a date, which they commonly attribute to the "normal guys" they'd actually like to meet not having the confidence to approach them.

Knowing how women think. I'd say what they mean is they have trouble finding the "perfect" package.

 

[Xela]

If you were aware of it, you wouldn't be complaining of "such a problem" in "WESTERN society", where the problem fortunately doesn't exist anymore.

Good to see that you acknowledge it as a "problem", anyway. But very clearly and obviously it does still exist: someone made the comment to which I responded: it didn't appear on the board magically, without being posted. Not to mention that there are a few thousand people who've been working in Hollywood (and in countless other places, too) over the last decade or two (and many of them over the last year or two) who might take exception to what you say.

 

[curiousGeorge8]

Everything you do in live has an opportunity cost. Each decision you make has some risk, and that risk can cost money.
Only in hindsight you can see for every decision you made if it was good or not. Then, and only then, you will know how big the opportunity cost was.
If you are afraid then don't do anything in life, as everything has an "opportunity cost" risk. Ironically enough doing nothing will cause the biggest "opportunity cost" you can encouter ever in your life.

Watching in hindsight the decision to become a trader was an excellent one for me, although it took years before that was clear. I had a "temporary opportunity cost" till the day I was permanent profitable.

If you go for a new job and lose it again you have also an opportunity cost.
Same thing if you marry; divorced people can tell you how expensive that can be.
Same thing for buying a house; look at the thousands of foreclosure a few years ago.

Yes, every efforts have opportunity costs, but full time independent traders have more opportunity costs than full-time students (who gain knowledge) or full time workers in regular jobs (who get paid and gain work experience).

If one has interests in trading, just gets a day job, save some money, and trade on the side. That is the road I took, and it can work out.