Side Jobs

Quote from executioner:

i was a software engineer and still do some side work from time to time. if i decide to stop trading or my group doesn't get large enough i at least have something to fall back on.
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I don't get it you say your a software engineer and ask on this board how to set up keys?

http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=97611

Something doesn't sit right with this. Also you made a post about a bloomberg quote that was false

http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=97394


You also made a claim about a rate you have

http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=1514316#post1514316

If you can post a days runs to show your not full of it(rate wise) then i have to believe your blowing smoke up everyone ass here to attract traders into your group as you posted here

http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=1514581#post1514581.

Maybe you didn't see what happened to a shark on the pure tick site.

http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=97478



I don't know if this guy is smart are foolish but this is a very serious situation if he can't show any facts.:confused:



I would hate to see someone get taken advantage of by a creep.
 
Quote from hilojack:

Or you could follow the plan of a guy that I started with and is now VERY successful.

1. Save up enough cash for the minimum deposit at a prop shop.

2. Conveneiently get yourself fired from your current job, and collect unemployment checks for the next six months.

3. Move to the west coast to take advantage of early trading hours.

4. Get a part-time job bartending.

5. take a commission based sales job.

Work your ass off to make it happen. His week was:

5:30AM-1:00PM Trading
1:00PM-5:00PM Sales job, mon-wed
8:00PM-1:00AM bartend, thur-sat.

This should get you through the first 6 months.... if you are not making considerable progress you should think about doing something else. Everyone will tell you that you need to be properly capitalized to get started. All you need is the heart and desire, and if you are not willing to do everything thats possible, you probably won't make it anyway.

And no, this isn't the will smith movie, as I like my guys story even better.

Good luck.
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I don't know how unemployment works in the US but in Canada you need to be unemployed to collect the cheques. And you need to actively look for jobs.
 
Quote from cashmoney69:

To pluck down 25...50..100k plus to trade and be able to lose all that...I'm going to guess that most the people here that trade full time came from a high paying job before they started trading.

Most probably come from a tech, medical, engineering field.

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Most from those fields especially med fail in this business for a very simple reason which is in their line of work one cant be 50% right one must be 90%+ right and they find this very hard to grasp. How would you like your surgeon to b only right half the time when opearting. They tend to make very good investors though.
 
Quote from Bogan7:

Most from those fields especially med fail in this business for a very simple reason which is in their line of work one cant be 50% right one must be 90%+ right and they find this very hard to grasp. How would you like your surgeon to b only right half the time when opearting. They tend to make very good investors though.
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My bro in law is a dentist, his wife is a pharmacist. Both with doctor's degrees. I can testify to this. They shiver at anything that bends. :-) Everything has to be logical/structured to them.
 
I have heard that doctors are notorious for being poor money managers. Money management is the most important skill in trading as far as I'm concerned.
 
Quote from will2205:

You have got to be kidding! What kind of things did u need to do? I can't imagine what sort of women you had encounters with!
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Women???!!!??? Oh, man! I feel so stupid!
 
Quote from will2205:

I'm wondering what kind of jobs some of you career traders held down as noobs to pay the bills. Any feedback is good, but if some people with futures experience could chime in it would be great.
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Interventional Neuroradiologist:cool:
 
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