POLL (Trading): If you knew then what you knew now...

[b]POLL (Trading): If you knew then what you knew now, what would you change?[/b]

  • Change brokers

    Votes: 3 3.3%
  • Learned more about psychology

    Votes: 6 6.7%
  • Money management

    Votes: 13 14.4%
  • Become more risk averse

    Votes: 4 4.4%
  • Learn more about TA

    Votes: 3 3.3%
  • Avoid TA

    Votes: 4 4.4%
  • Learn more about fundamentals

    Votes: 2 2.2%
  • Fundamentals don't help

    Votes: 2 2.2%
  • Gone into the industry, IB, prop firm, hedge fund, etc.

    Votes: 5 5.6%
  • Studied engineering/programming

    Votes: 3 3.3%
  • Never trade

    Votes: 4 4.4%
  • Prevent my friends from trading

    Votes: 3 3.3%
  • start my own advisory service

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Study price action until my eyeballs fell out

    Votes: 21 23.3%
  • Found a mentor

    Votes: 3 3.3%
  • Focused on a different instrument (class)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Start with more money

    Votes: 5 5.6%
  • Start with less money/Papertrade for a LONG time

    Votes: 8 8.9%
  • Would have studied more about successful traders

    Votes: 1 1.1%

  • Total voters
    90
Sat down with research at IBM and had them, in 1957, invent the copier, the PC, software languages, and the internet and email.

I look at people in ET who have all of these things now and see that they can't get off their asses and polling to make some money. It is the most humorous thing in the world to see these people not ever having seen the markets and not ever having seen step one of learning how to trade.

Today in 2008, there is a similar thing going on for individuals. they are all sitting there and they do not have any understanding at all of how their minds work and grow. they are complacently sitting on their asses and not making the connections to how their minds work and how they could have money coming out of their ears every day of the week.

What is the challenge to set up a display and annotate it to be making 5,000 or 10,000 dollars a day????

To sit on the sidelines year after year and puke out polls instead of learning how to trade is the funniest charade I have ever seen
 
Quote from jack hershey:

Sat down with research at IBM and had them, in 1957, invent the copier, the PC, software languages, and the internet and email.

I look at people in ET who have all of these things now and see that they can't get off their asses and polling to make some money. It is the most humorous thing in the world to see these people not ever having seen the markets and not ever having seen step one of learning how to trade.

Today in 2008, there is a similar thing going on for individuals. they are all sitting there and they do not have any understanding at all of how their minds work and grow. they are complacently sitting on their asses and not making the connections to how their minds work and how they could have money coming out of their ears every day of the week.

What is the challenge to set up a display and annotate it to be making 5,000 or 10,000 dollars a day????

To sit on the sidelines year after year and puke out polls instead of learning how to trade is the funniest charade I have ever seen

Sounds like you're referring to our resident pollster/genius, rcanfiel :p

Does he work for the census bureau or something?
 
Quoted by OddTrader :

What is the challenge to set up a display and annotate it to be making 5,000 or 10,000 dollars a day????

To sit on the sidelines year after year and puke out polls instead of learning how to trade is the funniest charade I have ever seen

That's true, very true. And we'd better tell Jack Hershey for that! :D
 
"Start with more money"

I'm surprised this didn't get more votes - I think being undercapitalized is one of the biggest problems for many new traders trying to make a living from it...
 
Quote from DannyBly1:

"Start with more money"

I'm surprised this didn't get more votes - I think being undercapitalized is one of the biggest problems for many new traders trying to make a living from it...

I remember reading some years ago, that trading success was directly proportional to the size of your account. Theoretically, you could take more shocks. But on the counter, it also makes people take on more risk...
 
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