Smashing Equipment in Anger?

Damn that is pretty bad! Those old skool 21" monitors wazz the sh!t back then.

The worst I heard was a guy at work who had been trading for years was heavily invested in utility stocks, leveraged out and one of the companies got halted (lost in the area of 10 mil). This was back in the late 90's. Basically this guy lost everything he had and the New York City Police Department had to remove him. Too bad the company owners did not back him to start over. Many years later the owner ran off with something like half of the traders deposits.
 
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Just to make it clear "Not Very Mature" and that is why I trade! Otherwise I would have a real job..
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The fact that you suggest you are a cartoon character says a lot about yourself. The comment about a having a real job.....if you don't take trading seriously what chance of success to you have?

The issue that you raise is why would you hurt your dog or even smash your monitor.... after all you are the dumb cun* who put the trade on in the first place ...take responsibility for your trade and just grow up

If loosing on one trade hurts you so much you simply should not be trading.

JR
 
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It was a little later but around then. We ended up staying pretty much to the end.

Quote from Satan's Helper:Damn that is pretty bad! Those old skool 21" monitors wazz the sh!t back then.

The worst I heard was a guy at work who had been trading for years was heavily invested in utility stocks, leveraged out and one of the companies got halted (lost in the area of 10 mil). This was back in the late 90's. Basically this guy lost everything he had and the New York City Police Department had to remove him. Too bad the company owners did not back him to start over. Many years later the owner ran off with something like half of the traders deposits.
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I know a lot of guys who got wiped out the day of the flash crash and no one broke anything even then. I saw a couple guys cry but I'd probably cry too if I lost my entire life savings and had a wife & kids.

That was a fluke one-off "FU" type rage event because I've really never seen people break stuff outside that. Most of the time when you have to buy your own stuff a thought goes through your head saying "if I punch this monitor it's going to cost me X to replace it" and they calm down.
 
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Hurting an animal is a pretty horrible thing to do no matter what. Anyone who would do that has issues.

About breaking stuff... I was at a division in Merrill when BofA came in and canned all 304 of us on the same day, without notice. We knew it was coming but had no idea it was going to be so soon and without warning.

It was pretty funny to watch some of the guys. Laptops flying across the office like frisbees, old school 20" CRT monitors smashed everywhere, guys were picking up their workstations, lifting them over their heads and smashing them on the floor, etc. Pretty much anything that wasn't bolted down to the walls or floors was smashed and broken. I'm sure BofA didn't really care in the grand scheme of things but at the time 50+ traders going crazy on a floor built for 300 guys turned into a disaster.
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I am wondering how many traders have smashed their monitors or other equipment in anger from taking a loss?

Is it wrong to kick my dog or slap something (wish it was my wife) to blow off steam.

What do you break to make yourself feel better and let that internal volcano loose??
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What a child, you apparently dont have the maturity or mentality to trade if you get that mad when you lose. Go back to playiing with your Leggo.
 
I used to throw empty bottles of Absinthe @the wall (when trading @my summer place) about 2X's per week. Had a guy come fix the wall @the end of every summer trading season.

Was not even 40 years old yet~~so I was still a violent little fucker...

Now I go outside and just yell random shit at whoever is walking past my place--they laugh--I feel better. Everybody wins.

OR

I grab a driver and hit about 20 balls into the lake and then do a session on my teeter inversion table.

Get the blood flowing; I think that is key. Release that shit and move on.

peace

hedvig
 
Its funny, there is some defending going on for the dog but no one has mentioned anything about him wishing to slap the wife around a little...lol
Anyway, Poor Dog.
 
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I am wondering how many traders have smashed their monitors or other equipment in anger from taking a loss?

Is it wrong to kick my dog or slap something (wish it was my wife) to blow off steam.

What do you break to make yourself feel better and let that internal volcano loose??
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You eventually will bear striking resemblance to the god you worship.......
 
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