Quick intro:
In mid 2008, after reading 10 books or so I fell in love with trading, the realistic, crude, merciless nature of the game captivated me. So I started trading with my own account using a ridiculously low amount of money, with the intention of learning. I've made only 10 trades in 3 months, all day-trades at the long side. I was a total noob and could only play long because I didn't have enough to play short, anyway, the results weren't bad.
After those 2,5 months I finally started to break-even and of course, I learned a lot (is impressive the amount of good info you can get from only 10 trades). Ok, continuing. In the meanwhile my father lost his "job", so I had to give up my ridiculously low amount of money for the family's sake. That was it. The plan was to keep studying and reading books until I get my money back and then some more, in the form of start-up capital (my father used to make a lot, so my expectations were realistic).
In the meantime, I read Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom and reached the conclusion that I was completely dreaming and there was no way in hell I could succeed with the amount of money that I was expecting, I needed at least triple, and my father couldn't find a high-paying "job" like before. That triggered my "time stop-loss". I won't be getting start-up capital anytime soon (if ever). So now I have 3 options:
1 - Start working in a soul-crushing job until I got the money. I'm college drop-out (advertising, biggest mistake of my life). Working at something I really deeply hate will take 3-4 years of 9-5 without spending a single dime and having to life with my parents until I am 26, so theeeen I can be a trader, if I'll be a profitable one, then that's another story.
2 - Sending resumes to hedge funds. Considering that there's only a tiny chance I'll get a interview, I was thinking to offer a 1 month free-trial sort-of-thing, in that case I would have to wake up at 5am, take the 2 hour bus trip to Sao Paulo (the financial capital of Brazil) and work for free for 1 month, if I'm bad they can fire me, if I'm good they can also fire me or maybe, I can get a chance. I would love to do that, I don't care if it's hard as long as I'm doing something I really want to do. The problem is that I don't now I can convince them to free-trial me without a real track-record of even a bachelors degree in something irrelevant like economics or business. I got a trading blog, a unusual one, since most blogs in my country say generic things about technical analysis or what to buy or sell, I could use that. This option leads me to...
3 - My father knows and works with some really rich people, I could try to use his connections, talk about a start-up with those people. I'm pretty sure some of them would listen to me, but if they know that I worked for free waking up at 5am and stuff then they will be sure that I'm dead serious about this, and then I can tell them that I wouldn't give up because I liked it so much and so on. I can try to use that to convince them better, or I could end up making my dad look bad which would be terrible, and unfortunately, probable.
Ok, that's it. I would enjoy some kind of input. What should I do? Offer me for free (to convince people I'm not a retarded kid who wants to get rich quickly)? Get a job and save up until I can start? Or just reach the rich folks and say: "Hi, you don't know me but I'm ...'s son and considering that he helped you out big time, I was wondering if you're interested in a start-up?"
TIA
In mid 2008, after reading 10 books or so I fell in love with trading, the realistic, crude, merciless nature of the game captivated me. So I started trading with my own account using a ridiculously low amount of money, with the intention of learning. I've made only 10 trades in 3 months, all day-trades at the long side. I was a total noob and could only play long because I didn't have enough to play short, anyway, the results weren't bad.
After those 2,5 months I finally started to break-even and of course, I learned a lot (is impressive the amount of good info you can get from only 10 trades). Ok, continuing. In the meanwhile my father lost his "job", so I had to give up my ridiculously low amount of money for the family's sake. That was it. The plan was to keep studying and reading books until I get my money back and then some more, in the form of start-up capital (my father used to make a lot, so my expectations were realistic).
In the meantime, I read Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom and reached the conclusion that I was completely dreaming and there was no way in hell I could succeed with the amount of money that I was expecting, I needed at least triple, and my father couldn't find a high-paying "job" like before. That triggered my "time stop-loss". I won't be getting start-up capital anytime soon (if ever). So now I have 3 options:
1 - Start working in a soul-crushing job until I got the money. I'm college drop-out (advertising, biggest mistake of my life). Working at something I really deeply hate will take 3-4 years of 9-5 without spending a single dime and having to life with my parents until I am 26, so theeeen I can be a trader, if I'll be a profitable one, then that's another story.
2 - Sending resumes to hedge funds. Considering that there's only a tiny chance I'll get a interview, I was thinking to offer a 1 month free-trial sort-of-thing, in that case I would have to wake up at 5am, take the 2 hour bus trip to Sao Paulo (the financial capital of Brazil) and work for free for 1 month, if I'm bad they can fire me, if I'm good they can also fire me or maybe, I can get a chance. I would love to do that, I don't care if it's hard as long as I'm doing something I really want to do. The problem is that I don't now I can convince them to free-trial me without a real track-record of even a bachelors degree in something irrelevant like economics or business. I got a trading blog, a unusual one, since most blogs in my country say generic things about technical analysis or what to buy or sell, I could use that. This option leads me to...
3 - My father knows and works with some really rich people, I could try to use his connections, talk about a start-up with those people. I'm pretty sure some of them would listen to me, but if they know that I worked for free waking up at 5am and stuff then they will be sure that I'm dead serious about this, and then I can tell them that I wouldn't give up because I liked it so much and so on. I can try to use that to convince them better, or I could end up making my dad look bad which would be terrible, and unfortunately, probable.
Ok, that's it. I would enjoy some kind of input. What should I do? Offer me for free (to convince people I'm not a retarded kid who wants to get rich quickly)? Get a job and save up until I can start? Or just reach the rich folks and say: "Hi, you don't know me but I'm ...'s son and considering that he helped you out big time, I was wondering if you're interested in a start-up?"
TIA
