Japanese Day Trader Makes $34 million

learner2007 said:
That just doesn't happen here.



Nope. Shoplifting is easy to do here and they don't expect to get caught. Maybe one in a thousand would prefer to be behind bars.


There are lots of homeless people, but it may surprise you to learn that there are no beggars.
Only once in 48 years living here did I see a guy sitting on the street with a tin can in front of him. And never do they come up to you asking for a handout.
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I'm sure they are in a minority, which is why I phrased it the way I did. But as I said I haven't been there so was basing my view on stuff like this that I've read over the years. There was a recent piece with the same theme but I can't remember where I read it.

Not begging must be a cultural thing I suppose. You lose count of the beggars you see in a day in Bangkok, most run by gangs who drop them off and pick them up when the streets go quiet.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/jun/19/japan

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/20...ith-swelling-elderly-population/#.VeMIbXAbmrV
 
fxwizard said:
Japan is no se place. A while a go, a highschool girl got fatally stabbed over the $100 (Yen equivalent) in her purse. Could you imagine the consequence of walking around in Tokyo when everyone knew you were a multi-millionaire? You'd have not random robbers with knives but a whole mafia coordinated attack.
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News for you. Japan is MUCH safer than the US and much more equal society.
 
Jakobsberg said:
News for you. Japan is MUCH safer than the US and much more equal society.
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News for you, Japan is not the safe utopia many disillusioned foreigners are lead to believe. Crazy shit happen in Japan just like anywhere else. Random people getting injured or mutilated for no apparent reasons (all 2015 news):

Man hit with bottle in robbery attempt on Tokyo street

Man questioned over 130 break-ins in Tokyo, Saitama since Feb

Suspect says another man in his van killed 13-year-old girl

Newspaper deliveryman shot by crossbow arrow in Aichi

16-year-old girl assaulted, robbed in Tochigi

18-year-old arrested for stabbing high school girl in Osaka

Man stabs 17-yr-old girl in back, cuts her hair as she walks home

More decapitated cats found in Kobe

Man arrested for setting fire to Aomori convenience store

17-year-old boy arrested for fatally stabbing man on street in Aichi

... and so on. This trader alias CIS has got some very good reasons to keep his identity secret!
 
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fxwizard said:
News for you, Japan is not the safe utopia many disillusioned foreigners are lead to believe. Crazy shit happen in Japan just like anywhere else. Random people getting injured or mutilated for no apparent reasons (all 2015 news):
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10x more crazier shit happens in the U.S. than in Japan.
Japan is safer than the U.S. by a wide-ass margin. Name some dangerous hoods in Tokyo that are the equivalents of Bed-Stuy, East NY, Brownsville in NYC and Compton, South Central LA in LA?
 
Jakobsberg said:
Of course you can pick individual stories but look at the total statistics

http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/compare/Japan/United-States/Crime

I've spent lot of time in both. Japan has less crime than US and very few guns. Just compare the murder and rape stats. Lol.
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This is the part you're mistaken. Just cuz ppl in Japan don't have guns don't mean they won't resort to using knives, bottles, acid, gasoleen, or arrows to commit their crimes.

Anyways, when you have an actual citizen of Japan (trader CIS) declaring he doesn't want to be known out of fear of being robbed, it paints a very clear picture of the relative safety of living in the society in question!
 
fxwizard said:
This is the part you're mistaken. Just cuz ppl in Japan don't have guns don't mean they won't resort to using knives, bottles, acid, gasoleen, or arrows to commit their crimes.

Anyways, when you have an actual citizen of Japan (trader CIS) declaring he doesn't want to be known out of fear of being robbed, it paints a very clear picture of the relative safety of living in the society in question!
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Haha you're either nuts or completely scared of your own shadow. JP is totally safe in comparison to the USA. It's his choice to not want to be known and while I think that's a good choice it doesn't mean Japan is a dangerous place by any measure.

Go to Central America sometime.
 
i960 said:
Haha you're either nuts or completely scared of your own shadow. JP is totally safe in comparison to the USA. It's his choice to not want to be known and while I think that's a good choice it doesn't mean Japan is a dangerous place by any measure.

Go to Central America sometime.
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Plz, I'm nuts for declaring JP doesn't have crimes? The entire point of my debate was clearing up why a certain poster didn't believe you could get robbed in Japan if everyone around you knew you were a walking multi-billion Yen sign.
 
learner2007 said:
No, he really exists. I saw him on TV in Tokyo when he was interviewed after making a bundle on a fat finger order. In that interview he explained his day trading strategy as simply watching the list of the current percentage gainers/losers and buying some of the biggest losers and selling the biggest gainers. While we can't argue with his success, at that time a few years ago hearing him speak sort of showed that such a strategy was the limit of his expertise. But it worked, and more power to him.
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How do you know Japanese TV doesn't work with Japanese Gov for marketing? TV always tells fake stories.
 
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