Trading and Suicidal Tendencies

Forget all the psych 101 shit, adjust your hormones and you will feel bitchin'.. When I run out of D-Phenylalanine I start to have suicide in my thoughts, not feeling suicidal at all, it's just that when my endorphins are high I don't ever even think of suicide and when they are low it comes into my thoughts...

Take some L-Tryptophan before going to bed, dose up on that stuff to the tune of a gram and a half on an empty stomach... you will sleep well and feel good the next day due to raised Serotonin level..

People that kill themselves are not thinking about all the people around them. They blow their brains and let loved ones find the bloody mess! Talk about Schlemiels!! I have a friend, a real hillbilly, smokes pot all the time, talks about offing himself all the time... I told him to not leave a mess like that at least and I told him we can always go to the Casino and commit financial suicide and have some fun while we're at it...
 
It doesn't count if you met them in your dreams

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Although most traders fail. Small minority rakes in the killing for 20-30 or more years. I know this because I met few older ones.
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To clairfy, they DO exist but this guy never met them.

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Quote from Fireplace:

It doesn't count if you met them in your dreams

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To clairfy, they DO exist but this guy never met them.

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and you know me so well don't you

there is literally 1 block away from me a full time trader managing 700 k of his own money

and I visited his home and watched his station etc

BUT YOU KNOW THAT'S A LIE

HOW DO YOU KNOW

YOU ARE VERY STUPID MAN AREN'T YOU
 
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just watch more Dexter, you'll be fine.
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Excellent point and great show!! If anything you will want to live to see Season 5 once you start watching it. The Season 4 finale will keep you alive long enough to see what happens after. This will give you until at least September-December! Maybe by then you will have found something else to do rather than committing suicide. Thank us later!
 
Here's an off-topic rubbish, albeit an interesting insight into the nature of death, that occurred to me recently. I was visiting an old chap who lives in one of those high-rise condos. While he was getting a drink, I stepped out on the balcony to get a good look at the stunning panorama. Needless to say, it was breathtakingly beautiful. Then I crept towards the railing and looked down at the ground level. Everything appeared so damn small. I'm usually afraid of heights but for some reason that didn't seemed to affect me then. And then something clicked in my brain.

For a very brief moment, I had this overwhelming urge to jump. I don't know what triggered it or for what reason. Most people who commit suicide are supposed to be depressed loonies who want the easy way out of their life's mess. I wouldn't exactly characterize my life as a state of bliss but nor do I see it as a complete failure. As far as I know, I have no reason to end my life so abruptly. I have none of the symptoms associated with suicide: no depression; no socioeconomic problems like money matters or marriage problems.

To this day, I still don't know what had triggered such an overwhelming desire. If an answer must be given, I can only say that I was curious about what lay on the other side. What was more surreal is that even as I was staring death in the face I didn't feel anything, only a sense of peace and serenity.

Then I looked up and saw the faces of my kids. The thought of them growing up without me gave me a shudder. I guess there is that unbreakable bond between parents and children after all. What's more, my friend would have been more than pissed off if he realized that I used his balcony (of all places) as the launching pad to bungee jump myself into oblivion. :)
 
I'm not sure I would say that it is trading that causes suicides but rather the people who get into trading for all the wrong reasons are more prone to suicide. It is sad that markets are sometimes used as casinos.
 
Quote from Newman:

Thank you for invitation fractal. In return I will now shred your psychology to pieces.

In public I will dismantle your psyche and give you a chance to rebuild.

Although most traders fail. Small minority rakes in the killing for 20-30 or more years. I know this because I met few older ones.

SO

What happens to those who fail. Naturally they feel bad, maybe even depressed. And some of them commit suicide.

So Fractal what did you learn today kido.

You learned that just because you don't posses the intellect to "make it" in trading. Doesn't mean someone like me can't either.

Why in today's America is it an insult to say that something is beyond one's comprehension.

I am not insulting you guys when I say that most of you lack the brain power to understand perplexing concepts.

That is a fact, not an insult.
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Its obvious you have the brain power and fractal was misspeaking when he said suicidal, but his destructive question should be addressed,since u have a living room view of your daily habits and internal workings, could u enlighten us on the reasons for so many attacks on so many posters here on ET, if not your reasons, could you perhaps share some of your thoughts on why so many others here on ET do it dozens maybe 100's of times per week,what would be a logical thought as to why someone on a message board would extol such antisocial behavior, where they might not ,or wouldn't dare in a face to face meeting with the same people, or any people for that matter
 
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To succeed in day trading you must essentially become obsessed with it. As with diving headfirst into anything, be it trading, substances, gambling, whatever, it is easy to lose sight of who you were prior to your swan dive into the unknown
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+1

True.
 
I think it has to do with the fact that you WILL be humbled every time you are at your peak. A trader must accept that to and make money he must never forget he is click away from disaster. The markets can do ANYTHING any day and with overnight exposure they can do it while you cant even watch.

It doesnt matter how good you, your system, or your trading is - risk control is paramount.
 
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