Evolution.
1978, Like most, dreaming how to spend the wheelbarrows, then you find out truly how hard it was, then computers were flying off the shelves in 1986, "hey how bout I buy as much that I can of IBM" which I did. Always found stocks easier to trade then anything else cause everything else is like buying air, an illusion that has worth. Trading is often buying an illusion and selling reality.
The horrible years of depression and suicidal thoughts of failure from 1985-91 learning to trade commodities and learning day trading, go from 5k to 105k in six months and lose it all in 3 limit down days, just made me more determined to learn even more. Had to "see and acknowledge" how truly fucked up I was as a person and nothing or nobody could help. Study more of thyself, but have turned into more of all around man who laughs at nearly everything, even losses.
1992 it just came together for me in long term and day trading in early 1993, learned how to program, cut down the 80 hours a week so I could be awake working 40 hours for government.
2008 got hugely ill from number of diseases at one time, often wonder if it came from staying in man cave too much, first time in my life where I had to many money to support myself whereas before all went into 401k LLC. Have done well past 9 years and 401k extremely happy, working hard on Roth.
So easy to slip into "hey this not hard at all" but forget briefly this is so fucking hard to get here, right now. And then the inevitable, oh crap how comes losses always bigger than winning days. Much fewer than years ago.
Trade like you don't need it, look within instead of outward at others, the game is all about learning where others are going to get screwed and they laugh at you.
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." Albert Einstein
Love the game too much to ever retire, never been me against whoever, it is me against me.
1978, Like most, dreaming how to spend the wheelbarrows, then you find out truly how hard it was, then computers were flying off the shelves in 1986, "hey how bout I buy as much that I can of IBM" which I did. Always found stocks easier to trade then anything else cause everything else is like buying air, an illusion that has worth. Trading is often buying an illusion and selling reality.
The horrible years of depression and suicidal thoughts of failure from 1985-91 learning to trade commodities and learning day trading, go from 5k to 105k in six months and lose it all in 3 limit down days, just made me more determined to learn even more. Had to "see and acknowledge" how truly fucked up I was as a person and nothing or nobody could help. Study more of thyself, but have turned into more of all around man who laughs at nearly everything, even losses.
1992 it just came together for me in long term and day trading in early 1993, learned how to program, cut down the 80 hours a week so I could be awake working 40 hours for government.
2008 got hugely ill from number of diseases at one time, often wonder if it came from staying in man cave too much, first time in my life where I had to many money to support myself whereas before all went into 401k LLC. Have done well past 9 years and 401k extremely happy, working hard on Roth.
So easy to slip into "hey this not hard at all" but forget briefly this is so fucking hard to get here, right now. And then the inevitable, oh crap how comes losses always bigger than winning days. Much fewer than years ago.
Trade like you don't need it, look within instead of outward at others, the game is all about learning where others are going to get screwed and they laugh at you.
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." Albert Einstein
Love the game too much to ever retire, never been me against whoever, it is me against me.
