If this is trading...then I quit

Shut up loser bitching about spelling ya your right I didnt go to a top Ivy league school OH WAIT I DID i ill try to spell better for you so that you won't be offended and then you can get back to how everyone sucks at trading but you stick to your micro account little guy or post some numbers....
 
Hey WIN was looking at your post summary wow you never say anything to contirbute pure shit talking to everyone..Either post some relavant shit or put up your numbers because you sound like a collage kid who just opened up his first etrade account with $2500 and plays the techs as if it were the 2000's hahah
 
Once again, my work is done on this post. JP please read all of my posts thru out the different threads. Almost everyone of them is helpful and informative. The only negative ones follow people spewing absolute nonsense. Maybe one day you will have as much trading knowledge as I've forgotten.

And if you went to an Ivy, which there is no way just from looking at your writing, then your daddy must have a building named after him.
 
Quote from Maverickz:

Then open a personal account and trade for YOURSELF. You don't have to work for a prop shop or on a floor to be a trader and enjoy doing it.
Ditto; I'm a noob, I still trade my IRA part time so WinItAll might say my post is worthless. :D I say go for your own retail account, get screen time, trade real money, but well preserved small amounts of real money. Do what you enjoy. :cool: Keep it simple, perhaps S/R and PA on one (1) instrument viewed on 15 minute and 1 hour charts at first, BUT to each his own method. :D
 
Quote from xxfunguyxx:
Its just I love trading so much.
You are unsuited to trading. Quit.

Trading is not love; it is not a love match. Whenever I read 'love' and 'passion' for trading I know there can only be failure or disappointment, partially or wholly.

In trading you are confronted with a puzzle. Problem solving is the necessary ability required and solving how to take daily accumulating profits from the market is the line of enquiry you undertake in making yourself succcessful in trading as an individual player.

The correct aim is not the treadmill aspiration of so-called 'trading for a living' but to make yourself rich.
:)
 
Rock,

What you said is very smart. I don't care that the guy hasn't traded full time, all I'm saying is not to try and convince people that any type of trading is easy and you can use gimmicks to make BANK.
 
From now, trade for yourself and if you can make 70K in the next 12 months with your own money, I will hire you for 250K a year. Of course your account will go through audit by my team to make sure that you are right. You should not also have lost more than 5% of your account in any time during the test period. After that, send me a private message so we can meet. I don't care you start with how much money. You should make 70K+ in 12 months.
 
Quote from xxfunguyxx:

First of all, please let me make clear something...I am not complaining because trading requires lots of work, or strong personnality, or even passion...

I m complaining about the fact that it requires, like sports, pure solid genetically gifted genius... academic genius not physical genius in this case

What happened... u ask?

1st of all, I love trading, I love tracking, trends, news, and most of all...I love the fact that trading tests your personal psychology and inner traits...and I love the fact you need to produce results in trading more than anything else.

However, recently I was speaking with some college alumnis about how to work as a prop trader for a top tier firm in Chicago. They basically told me that these top tier firms care nothing about what I wrote above...

that your only chance to get in is through college recruiting. Why you ask? because these firms are looking for one thing...wonder kids or math wizards who have the potential for hardcore quantitative analysis, statistical arbitrage, and know how to use majorly complex trading softwares.

Some of these kids who have gotten in didnt even know the first thing about trading or had any passion in it at all...they just applied because they were top level math students or econ grads that only knew trading meant lots of money

I thought trading could be done by your average smart person who can build the right personnality and passion for it. It seems now, like most things in life...its about natural selection than passion and guts.

I m not saying this is wrong...I m just saying that I have to face the facts...as an indiviudal...I dont have the genetic potential to be successful in high level math or statistics. Just like I dont have the potential to play for the NFL no matter how hard I work or how passionate I am at football.

Its just I love trading so much. I dont do it just for the money. Theres a lot of things one can do to make money. I love the who philosophy of it. Its helped me build a lot of character. I guess I m just a lil sad to think I may need to depart with it.
NEWTON LOST his Shirt in Stock Markets...
So, Genius - definately NO
But IF YOU ARE STUPID, STUBBORN and and insensitive to what others SAY - DEFINATELY YOU will succeed
 
Quote from Cheese:

You are unsuited to trading. Quit.

Trading is not love; it is not a love match. Whenever I read 'love' and 'passion' for trading I know there can only be failure or disappointment, partially or wholly.

In trading you are confronted with a puzzle. Problem solving is the necessary ability required and solving how to take daily accumulating profits from the market is the line of enquiry you undertake in making yourself succcessful in trading as an individual player.

The correct aim is not the treadmill aspiration of so-called 'trading for a living' but to make yourself rich.
:)
+1

Regards

Johno
 
Quote from Zentrickster:

Yes that is exactly correct. You dint need schooling but you do need the gift or raw genius. Otherwise you are just another loser who will either grind away slowly or Lose it all quickly depending on your personality type and or self control

Fact tis market is loved most by those least suited for it. Therein lies the alure and danger. If you love trading if it's your passion. . You WIILL lose!
Brilliant remark, but I would like to add as follows. Not all those who love trading lose money because of it, but all those who lose money because of it do love trading. Otherwise there's no reason why they would be trading, if they both disliked it and lost money because of it. Also, consider this - even if you didn't love trading to begin with, you will start liking if you make money with it.

Also, regarding the post by xxfunguyxx. xxfunguyxx, if you are so modest as to say that maybe you're not good enough to make money in the markets, that is a great quality for a trader - if you think that you can never be wrong because you are so intelligent, you will lose and lose money, for years. But also, if you are so modest that you will just quit, then that is also a bad quality. In that case, it's best that you quit immediately, rather than in a year. You either think you can't fail because you will not stop trying until you succeed, or you shouldn't even start.
 
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