People are negative about trading
It really sucks that the average person is negative about trading. I’ve gotten to the point where I do not share my trading life with much of anyone. I have 1 friend who is very supportive, no surprise that he was trading for about 1.5 years until recently. One of my closest friends continues to say that I should focus on my regular job and forget about trading. Another close friend is a financial advisor and he is happy to deliver index type returns and would never support the risks of trading. I could go on and on of people I cannot share my success and failures with. But at least everyone here gets it.
"People are negative about trading"
Some people are negative about trading.
What kinds of people?
The kinds of people that can not do what you can do now and want to get better at, or about which you want to share your ideas, or even just what you are trying to do.
Fugg em, it's just one of many 'ways of the troll'.
Yes it is very unfortunate for us who are earnestly pursuing an aspect of discussion that's of value to us.
There are hundreds of cases where an all over the road, out of left field 'voice of reason and expertise' takes it upon themselves to interject 'clever' nonsense into, or hijacking entirely, the stream of a what before had been a perfectly functional thread, and doing so to the point that the thread becomes a disjointed unfortunate mess. Crabpot mentality at work. (article below)
Then ya got the 'delusions of adequacy egomaniacs' who insert banal crap that everybody learned in grade school about 'buyer beware' in all it's variations over and over all over the damn place, or this type will state obvious bs and claims of a superior way to do things, then coyly step behind his mommy's skirts back on the porch instead of provide a shred of concept or god forbid detail about a method, or setup, or trigger that gives their crap any iota of value.
Both are not entertaining, nor informative.
They merely disrupt and retard the value that traders can be to one another.
This makes them happy and fulfilled.
Is this not sick?
Kvetchers gonna Kvetch.
Don't let the losers get ya down, bro.
Do your thing.
When I used “hater” (which had been introduced to me by a student, also) this past week, one of my students said that she used “crab pot mentality” to describe the same thing. She said when crabs are put into a cooking pot, they start to clamber up the side of the pot to escape. An interesting thing happens on their way to freedom: The crabs left behind reach up and pull the fleeing crabs back into the pot. Rather than see anyone live for another day, the crabs appear to be content to all die.
What a powerful metaphor! I did a quick Google search and found a number of references to “crab pot mentality.” Here are just three:
Whatever you choose to call these people—haters, crabs, energy vampires, saboteurs, dysfunctional—they can kill a dream if we allow them into our world. If you have run into these energy suckers, please share your strategies. What is your antidote to their poison?
