Trading in Thailand

Nana Trader · May 30, 2006

Quote from HKT:

yes, furnished, most everywhere is already furnished and if you only want to stay 2 months just tell the landlord you'll stay 6 months and offer to pay 2 up front, they don't make you sign anything here and they are used to people bailing out.

Thai landlord won't return your two month deposit paid to them in advance, if you don't complete your agreed or mentioned verbally contracts

HKT · May 30, 2006

If you put down two months rent than than after a month you pay rent again, so you are always prepaid one month, than when you don't pay rent you have untill the end of the month and when you move out you don't lose anything. many of my friends jump around from place to place very often, because it is quite common for you to pay two months rent and the next day they start building a new house right outside your window and they start running drills and hammering at 5 am, 7 days a week.

diligent · May 30, 2006

i would advise against - there is a strong mafia presence and they will catch wind of you - go offshore in barbados or similar.

HKT · May 31, 2006

yeah if you are into flashing money they will catch wind of you and want to get their hands on some of it....
I personally lived in the caribbean already and couldn't stand it.

noisebasement · Jul 9, 2007

Interesting. i am in bkk right now, just got a condo in sukumvit soi 15. i willl be here for a while, was actually looking to open a small office so me and couple buddies can trade. is there alot of traders here in bkk? is it possible to meet up one day? nana_trader, i really enjoyed all your posts on bangkok. was very informative. if there are other traders here in bangkok, would it be possible to setup a "trader" meeting? have a few beers etc... let me know if this interests anyone. we are late twenties/early thirties, been trading the u.s. markets for many years now.

Lights · Jul 9, 2007

u guys realize that half the whores there were once men.

Quote from Nana Trader:

Mark1,

Don't put all the blame on thais only, Usally it's falangs who
like to butterfly mostly, and plunge their instrument in every
hole that doesn't get away from them, as much possible during their short visit.

Meiguoren · Nov 19, 2007

Quote from Nana Trader:

There is no catch, Chiang mai is very unexpensive place to live

Thanks and after looking at this place and the price, Im going to be staying there.

A very imformative thread.

Meiguoren · Nov 19, 2007

noise, are you still in bkk?

If so, how much is your monthly rent and what does it include?

flyingiguana · Nov 19, 2007

Quote from okwon:

This is not true. There is a small minority group that is anti-American, but the majority of the people do not hate Americans. It's just that the anti-American groups have held a lot of demonstrations and public rallies in the past couple of years, mainly due to incidents caused by the US military personnel there. Running over kids walking home from school with tanks, although accidental, and not allowing a local investigation into the cause, tends to piss people off.

running over kids? do they send the retards over to south korea or something?

Red_Ink_inc · Feb 12, 2008

I'll be in South East Asia starting on the 25th of February for about a month. Wondering if there's any traders in Bangkok, Phuket, Kuala Lumpur or Singapore?

I can't get away from trading even when on vacation. So Sad.