To profitable traders: How do you feel?

Quote from Kastro_316:

Since I am a student and a DEMO/back testing trader, still testing systems and working on certain things, I would like to know how you "Full time traders" feel. Do you wake up every morning and think "Wow, I made it, I beat the odds" or do you think along the lines of “I hope I don't lose today” or “I need to get better"

When ever I am in pursuit of a dream, I always think to my self when I realize that dream I am not going to have a care in the world, but it seems every time I realize a dream I have worked hard for, I continue to doubt my self and think "I should be better"

Anyone else have this?
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Pardon me if my thoughts get off base sometimes:

First of all, I used to think that there would be times that I would say "Wow, I made it" which there have been, but everytime I got there, there were new goals and challenges. Which is great!. My last job was working as a parking garage manager (subterranean Vehicular Placement Specialist) where, thanks to 8 hours of car fumes, I literally was getting dumber by the minute. What was my goal there? Get all the cars in a straight line? Keep customers happy and get some crappy 2.1% raise at the end of the year and be excited about that?!?!?

Trading is a career in which the income is truly limitless. It is really scary to think about this, but what is more scary is being in a career WITH boundaries and people telling you what to do. You will have retracements and pullbacks, just like the markets profitability will not be linear. I wake up excited about the markets and when I don't or the markets aren't there, I go on vacation where I always seem to come back ready to go again. There is a balance!

I have had some really crappy-ass jobs and I will NEVER go back to a 9-5 job. Hell, I don't know WTF I could do back in the real world.

The fact that you feel that you should be better means that you can get better. In what ways you can be (patience, size, etc.,) I am not sure, but there is always something to work on and what a boring place work would be if there wasn't.

Stay Positive
 
Quote from buylo:

Pardon me if my thoughts get off base sometimes:

First of all, I used to think that there would be times that I would say "Wow, I made it" which there have been, but everytime I got there, there were new goals and challenges. Which is great!. My last job was working as a parking garage manager (subterranean Vehicular Placement Specialist) where, thanks to 8 hours of car fumes, I literally was getting dumber by the minute. What was my goal there? Get all the cars in a straight line? Keep customers happy and get some crappy 2.1% raise at the end of the year and be excited about that?!?!?

Trading is a career in which the income is truly limitless. It is really scary to think about this, but what is more scary is being in a career WITH boundaries and people telling you what to do. You will have retracements and pullbacks, just like the markets profitability will not be linear. I wake up excited about the markets and when I don't or the markets aren't there, I go on vacation where I always seem to come back ready to go again. There is a balance!

I have had some really crappy-ass jobs and I will NEVER go back to a 9-5 job. Hell, I don't know WTF I could do back in the real world.

The fact that you feel that you should be better means that you can get better. In what ways you can be (patience, size, etc.,) I am not sure, but there is always something to work on and what a boring place work would be if there wasn't.

Stay Positive
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Well said. Everyone has a different opinion regarding longevity in trading, and I like hearing all of them.

I think to become a full time trader, and succeed in it for a number of years is something no one is meant to understand. It just happens...On our path to trading as a career we find new alternatives or new opportunities and some of us take advantage of them. I am on a path in the investment world and I believe while I take that path, I will be given the opportunity to become part of the group called "Full time profitable traders"

Who knows, I might just do something completely different, or I might do exactly what I plan on doing. Knowing that is enough to keep on going and never stop.
 
This thread tells you why trading is a job for almost all independent traders who can stay profitable. You can say you like it or love it but its a job.

What the market is, is this. Its the opportunity and means .. both together.. to make a fortune.
:)
 
Trading is the best job anywhere!

I love being my own boss

I love the huge income potential

I love the excitement and gratitude of closing a winning trade

I love the freedom of being able to take time off anytime I want to

I love the 20 second commute from my bedroom to my trading office

I love not having to kiss some incompetent bosses' ass 40 hours a week.

I love being able to make enough money to be comfortable and be able to give something back to the community.

I love not being tried all the time like I was working 60 hours a week in the IT industry.

cheers,
 
Trading is a Computer Game.

I am gonna get me some swords today, maybe even get to the next level to be closer to immortality. Yesterday I harvested some minor icons. Got myself one step up the ladder.

Will it be more fun today than it was yesterday? I have a hunch that it will.

:D
 
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