Based upon your own words about your trading problems...it sounds like you're already in some kind of hell.
Your motives or hidden agenda is obvious to everyone including myself. You try to sit there and be a trader that attempts to be a profitable trader and to accomplish such...you'll need to take money from other traders...traders on the other side of your trades. In fact, if one day you get good at it and you have some kind'uv an edge...you become your own hypocrite...someone that preys on other traders. That's the irony in your story and it obviously is causing you enough conflict that you can't even see how its sabotaging you considering at this forum you have consistently attack gurus via stating they are "preying" on others...including your recent comparison to prostitution.
Reminder, since your arrival to this forum...you've gone on the attack. Here are some of your recent attacks (very hostile on your part) to other ET members: you can't argue cogently, your ugly avatar, two facedness, predatory, subtly sadistic, socially darwinistic agenda, prostitution, traders lack father figures, traders from at risk families.
Dr. Brett Steenbarger is one of the biggest psychology trading gurus out there...top 10 list and has written many books and online articles about the psychological aspects of trading. He doesn't need to be profitable anymore nor is he require to trade anymore. He just needs to know his stuff about psychology and he has the academic background in such and the professional work experience about such (see bio below).
In fact, you can provide proof to contradict me via naming other psychology gurus that's more important than Steenbarger. I can only name three.
As a reminder, you should stop lying that the gurus do not talk about psychology and you should stop lying that there's no place to freely do such considering the fact that Baron (ET owner) isn't charging you or any one else to talk about the psychological aspects of trading at this forum. In fact, I've seen at least 3 traders at this forum give you trading advice and psychology advice. Guess what, they are gurus and I say that because many ET members calls them "gurus". Seriously, can't you see the fact that you've posted this thread in the psychology section while complaining you're not getting any free shared advice about the psychology aspects of trading...wake up and read what people are telling you.
How did you react to them ? You blew them off or resorted to trying to looking down on them via attacking their soul as a trader. That's more irony from you which is why you have an agenda and you're stuck in some place you don't know how to escape. As you can see, I don't need to tell you to "go to hell"....you're already there.
If you don't care what I think, stay in that hell that you've put yourself in and put me on ignore so that you can no longer see someone that's calling you out for your lies. I recommend you contact Dr. Brett Steenbarger for some advice and I'm sure he can direct you to another professional in the business of psychology considering he recently stated he does not work with retail traders. You have problems as you stated yourself in another thread via implying you're near the end of the rope. That's a ton of pressure you're currently in and your constant venting via comparing trading to negative aspects of life...its alarming.
Dr. Brett Steenbarger, the dude is an expert (a guru) on psychology of trading and below is his bio. By the way, he use to post here at ET in the past a long time ago and freely gave advice but got tired of the jerks at this forum. Simply, he stopped posting at this forum.
Brett N. Steenbarger, Ph.D. has been actively involved in the financial markets since the late 1970s. He has served as Director of Trader Development for Kingstree Trading, LLC in Chicago and currently consults with traders in a number of professional trading organizations. He is also Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, NY. A clinical psychologist and active trader, writer, and researcher for the past 20 years, Brett is the author of Enhancing Trader Performance (Wiley, 2006); The Psychology of Trading (Wiley; 2003); and numerous articles on trading psychology for print and online financial publications. His book chapters on brief psychotherapy can be found in such reference works as The Psychologist's Desk Reference (Oxford University Press, 1998), Encyclopedia of Psychotherapy (Academic Press, 2002), Clinical Strategies for Becoming a Master Psychotherapist (Academic Press, 2006), and the forthcoming editions of Kaplan & Sadock's Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry and The Handbook of Clinical Psychology. His coedited book, The Art and Science of the Brief Psychotherapies (American Psychiatric Publishing, 2004), has been selected as a core training text for psychiatry residency programs.
In July, 2004, Dr. Steenbarger stepped down from his medical school faculty position and began intensive work with professional traders at Kingstree Trading, where he also coordinated their training program for new traders. In 2006, he moved his work with traders to a part-time basis in order to pursue modeling research, his own trading, and the writing of his book on trader performance. Drawing upon an intensive research program that began in 1998, he has created a number of unique measures of market trend, momentum, and institutional activity designed to aid short-term traders. These measures--and the trading strategies derived from them--have been chronicled daily in the Trading Psychology Weblog and the TraderFeed blog. Most recently, he has served as a presenter in a number of training events sponsored by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and other futures exchanges.
Dr. Steenbarger resides in Naperville, IL with his wife of 22 years, Margie, and their two children, Devon and Macrae. He grew up in Canton, Ohio, receiving his B.S. from Duke University in 1976 and his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Kansas in 1982. Dr. Steenbarger limits his practice to traders in hedge fund, investment bank, and proprietary trading group settings,
Thank you for your concern, yes I have serious psychiatric issues in my past which is why I turned to trading after college, obviously I hate this line of work, in a philosophical sense. Thank you for bringing this to light.
