What had trading done for and to you?

vanzandt said:
I didn't. I do it because its so f'ing hard beat.
Chess bores me now. Trading is where its at.
And wrbtrader.... kudos on you. Giving it away is half the fun ;)
Hell its all the fun.
More...

I gave you a like, amazing LOL

I too trade for the challenge, it really shouldn't be this hard to beat it's nearly a 50/50 game after all.

I love chess, don't get to play it ever, only like it face to face on a old fashioned board no cheating possible, but I was pretty good at it.

Trading, only thing I've yet to master, keeps me coming back.
 
TraDaToR said:
-It made me an illiterate after 10 years at watching ladders. I used to write well( in my native language, not in english ), nowadays I write like a 10 years old.
More...

Two languages is a dream for one of us degenerates, you are a renaissance man i can hardly spell buy or sell anymore ive fried my brain so hard. :D
 
wrbtrader said:
It has allowed me to financially help others in family and close relatives. I've paid for the college education of a close friend (his daughter)...Ohio State University. She eventually earned a scholarship for her graduate program. It's allowed me to purchase properties (2) and was the sole reason why another property (grandparents home in France) was given to me when they died. Simply, they thought I was better with money than my siblings although I do share the home with my siblings as a vacation home.

Overall, its been positive but always stressful. More stressful than most things I've ever done (e.g. military, elite level in sports) except late last year. Dealing with a serious illness was extremely stressful but it was trading that motivated me to get better and my renewed faith in god.

I use to hear people say there's nothing good that comes from being a trader. My personal experience...they are wrong. Good can come from it but that depends on what kind'uv of person the trader is. I've seen some successful folks use their income to hurt people they didn't like or didn't agree with. Reality, trading can destroy the lives of people too if they aren't properly prepared to deal with trading.

I've also seen wealthy investors do similar like good but more on a larger scale. These types of people we often label them with the word "philanthropists". Simply, having money can be good too.
More...
Awesome response. Great to hear you overcame illness and continue trading and helping others. Your testimony is something I'd like to live out.

Thank you for sharing.
 
Trading helped me with discipline in other areas of my life. First time I blew out I had a hard look at myself and I figured if I couldn't be disciplined in other areas of my life, how could I be disciplined in trading? So I worked on bettering myself with discipline especially concerning health. Quit smoking, exercise 5 days a week, eat healthier. Due to the amount of time in front of screens forced me to focus on getting up once an hour get some water, do some stretches, walk the dog ect.

Trading is the reason for a ton of my self development in mental aspects of my life as well, which I'm thankful for.

Trading has also allowed me to connect with IMO some of the brightest minds around.
 
Last edited:
Zr1Trader said:
Trading helped me with discipline in other areas of my life. First time I blew out I had a hard look at myself and I figured if I couldn't be disciplined in other areas of my life, how could I be disciplined in trading? So I worked on bettering myself with discipline especially concerning health. Quit smoking, exercise 5 days a week, eat healthier. Due to the amount of time in front of screens forced me to focus on getting up once an hour get some water, do some stretches, walk the dog ect.

Trading is the reason for a ton of my self development in mental aspects of my life as well, which I'm thankful for.

Trading has also allowed me to connect with IMO some of the brightest minds around.
More...
Cold turkey on the smokes or what? Any advice?
 
jsmacksem said:
Cold turkey on the smokes or what? Any advice?
More...
Going broke and forced to decide between buying cigerettes or buying food.
Once you have got to the next paycheck then tell yourself "i've been x amount of days without a smoke, I can go one more day". Just keep doing this.
If you find a pack of cigerettes, maybe smoke one or two then ask yourself, do I want to go through that bad experience again, then toss out those new found ciggys.
Throwing out the car window works.
 
Last edited:
Trading is my hobby. I started it out of interest and was intended as a learning exercise. Over the years I've experimented with various types of instruments (e.g. stocks, ETFs, options, futures) in various markets (Tokyo, Europe, USA). And have experimented with various types of trading systems. Going from very slow (review once per week) to somewhat faster (review once per minute). I've tried discretionary trading (which I wasn't good at) and automated trading, which seems more promising. As a side effect has it forced me to learn how to program and how to develop my own software tools.
All these thing together make it a challenging hobby, which requires to use your brains. And stimulates creativity.
I like it, and don't foresee an end to this hobby in the near future.
 
We choose to get rich! We choose to get rich in this decade and do the other things, not because it is easy, but because it is hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one we intend to win .
 
It has done a lot for me,

Pros:
-Showed me what it takes to succeed at something, golf, work, sports....

-Money, not a huge sum but enough to have some fun with.

-Gave me a purpose, to wake up and do something with real ambitions and goals

-Trading and fishing are the only 2 things I was very passionate about and it improved my confidence and self esteem "once I was making money" the opposite was true when I was losing.

-Gave me some sort of identity as a person

-Forced me as person to grown and work harder



Cons:
-If the time and effort I spend on trading was spend on building a conventional business I would have made a lot more money.

-stress, uncertainty, no stability,

-very little credit

-hard to relate to people with regular jobs,

-isolated

- very little chance for employment if you blow out in the future
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top