market success = life success ???

[FRuiTY PeBBLe]

Quote from TGregg:

I never knew where the $ symbol came from until I read Rand.

So....where does it come from?

FRuiTY

 

[FRuiTY PeBBLe]

Quote from OVERtheLINE:

thats what its all about

Sex is what it's all about. FRuiTY knows.

FRuiTY P.

 

[plumlazy]

striving to stay somewhere between pulling corn

*Not Too High*

and digging potatoes.

*Not Too Low*

 

[TGregg]

Quote from FRuiTY PeBBLe:


So....where does it come from?

FRuiTY

Read Rand and find out . I'm going to get a glass of wine, read that speech again, then go to bed.

 

[FRuiTY PeBBLe]

Quote from TGregg:



Read Rand and find out . I'm going to get a glass of wine, read that speech again, then go to bed.

How about adding, "tell ET meaning of $" to that list?

F. P.

 

[limitdown]

Quote from marketsurfer:

the state of mind required to constantly extract profits from the market seems to be diametrically opposed to "real" life. are you able to turn this 'state of mind" off when the market closes for day ? OR does it extract a toll on the other aspects of your life ??

just wondering,

surf

boy, this PSY102 class is really getting deep....

Snow boots anyone?

 

[profitseer]

Quote from marketsurfer:

the state of mind required to constantly extract profits from the market seems to be diametrically opposed to "real" life. are you able to turn this 'state of mind" off when the market closes for day ? OR does it extract a toll on the other aspects of your life ??

just wondering,

surf

It became a serious problem for me. My personality actually split. I became two different people. My trading was successful but my life was not.

But that was the past. Today I live my life like I trade. And the funny thing is. I now have everything I thought I would lose if I lived like I traded. I was just afraid no one would like me if they knew what a really bad guy I was when the market was open.

 

[Corso482]

I find myself constantly evaluating things from a risk/reward perspective and am vigilant against reading meaning into randomness.

 

[dgmodel]

Quote from F. d'Anconia:

to all of life's problems is readily found in sound trading practice.

It is simply disattachment and nothing more.
Pain in the markets is only as you perceive it, as is pain in life.
Same for euphoria.................

all attachment is suffering.
and........everything is relative.

Imagine if you will that the opposite side of every trade is someone out there (a real live person given to fear and greed just like you). And this zero sum game is going on between the two of you. When you short, they buy from you and when you buy, they sell to you. Prices move up and down and you are happy when they are sad and they are happy when you are sad.

Now just imagine that you are a third person watching this ridiculous vascillation of emotion. You feel nothing because you aren't in the position of the other two. Yet nothing is different. Prices go up and prices go down. But the third person perceives things very differently, or rather doesn't perceive anything, either negative or positive about the price action.

And (IMHO) I think that's essentially the trick. To really believe (and not just say) that no market is bad (just different). And also; in daytrading at least, to have no real bias past your immediate timeframe. To have a longer term bias is really just your ego attached to its opinion.


regards, Surf.

:clap: very good post...

 

[qdz2]

Every once a while, after I am done with complaining about bad things in the market place, I feel the life is beautiful and have little to complain eternally.


This is a good thread. So just ignore me for not letting me ruin it.