Hello Everybody !
Well I'm posting to have your opinions concerning my point of view about trading for a living.
So first of all, I'm not a newbie, I've traded full time for two years and was quite profitable (which means I've made 100 k⬠profit over this period, starting with a 10 000 ⬠account, not so bad I guess...)
I stopped to trade 6 months ago (I've lost some money as I took too much risk, funny to say but unfortunately as I was quite successful I became more greedy and wanted more, classic fail scheme...)
But I precise that without this loss I would have made more than 150,000 â¬.
Since then I've found a job as a financial controller in a small company, but I'm thinking more and more to start again to trade for a living.
In fact we often hear that it's impossible to trade for a living, but I've honestly never understood why so much people said that.
With the time the only answer which seems plausible to me is that a large part of people who trade are not well educated, weak technically speaking, and have a lot of dreams...
Just for information I started to trade futures, after what I add options to my portfolio, and at the end I specialized in volatility trading (so I traded both futures and options)
But the reason why I post today is to have your opinions on my reasonning.
Well in my daily job, I work hard, have a âridiculousâ salary and honestly I don't think the future will be brighter (the company was almost in bankruptcy before I arrive and even with my help I'm not sure that it will last over the end of the year...)
I only accepted this job because I thought that it will be a good opportunity to add some experience in corporate finance.
Whatever, here is my point, in life you have to make some choices, and one of this choice is the way you want to live. I'm ambitious, and I'm pretty sure that a lot of members of this board are too.
I'm sure that if I could have a good job in a company well paid I'll do it without hesitate, but the reality is that nowadays good jobs well paid are more than hard to find, I didn't graduate from Harvard or Stanford which makes the task harder (I think even harder than trade for a living) and the only real alternative to succeed, start your own company, is even riskier IMHO in the actual economyâ¦
So do you guys think that Iâm not realistic? Or that Iâm wrong somewhere in my reasonning ?
Whether you agree or not, please try to make a constructed reasonning, I'll appreciate.
Thanks a lot
Well I'm posting to have your opinions concerning my point of view about trading for a living.
So first of all, I'm not a newbie, I've traded full time for two years and was quite profitable (which means I've made 100 k⬠profit over this period, starting with a 10 000 ⬠account, not so bad I guess...)
I stopped to trade 6 months ago (I've lost some money as I took too much risk, funny to say but unfortunately as I was quite successful I became more greedy and wanted more, classic fail scheme...)
But I precise that without this loss I would have made more than 150,000 â¬.
Since then I've found a job as a financial controller in a small company, but I'm thinking more and more to start again to trade for a living.
In fact we often hear that it's impossible to trade for a living, but I've honestly never understood why so much people said that.
With the time the only answer which seems plausible to me is that a large part of people who trade are not well educated, weak technically speaking, and have a lot of dreams...
Just for information I started to trade futures, after what I add options to my portfolio, and at the end I specialized in volatility trading (so I traded both futures and options)
But the reason why I post today is to have your opinions on my reasonning.
Well in my daily job, I work hard, have a âridiculousâ salary and honestly I don't think the future will be brighter (the company was almost in bankruptcy before I arrive and even with my help I'm not sure that it will last over the end of the year...)
I only accepted this job because I thought that it will be a good opportunity to add some experience in corporate finance.
Whatever, here is my point, in life you have to make some choices, and one of this choice is the way you want to live. I'm ambitious, and I'm pretty sure that a lot of members of this board are too.
I'm sure that if I could have a good job in a company well paid I'll do it without hesitate, but the reality is that nowadays good jobs well paid are more than hard to find, I didn't graduate from Harvard or Stanford which makes the task harder (I think even harder than trade for a living) and the only real alternative to succeed, start your own company, is even riskier IMHO in the actual economyâ¦
So do you guys think that Iâm not realistic? Or that Iâm wrong somewhere in my reasonning ?
Whether you agree or not, please try to make a constructed reasonning, I'll appreciate.
Thanks a lot
