What Has Trading Given You?

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JRL

Hi All,

Just thought it'd be interesting to hear some commentary from some of the people on here who's primary source of income is through trading. A few questions:

01) What first attracted you to the profession?

02) What has kept you in it?

03) How does it compare to other career(s) that you may have been first involved in? Upsides, downsides?

04) What has surprised you the most about the day-to-day grind? Critical success factors?

05) What exactly has trading given you? Prestige? Control? Freedom? Huge cash reserves? :D
 
That's a lot of questions. lol

Trading has given me a creative outlet. I am in a fantastic, although dead-end, job. The possibility of making some money for a cush and early retirement through trading has kept me working away.

I like the market because there is no gray area. No fuzzy, wishy-washy evaluations, no discretionary raises, no going to bed with an argument unresolved. The market doesn't have you come in on weekends because you didn't make enough sales calls during the week. The market is never mad because you forgot it's birthday or didn't give it a backrub. The market doesn't give you a dirty look because you let an insidious bug get through testing.

You made money on a trade or you did not. Binary output. I appreciate being told if I am right or wrong immediately and not having to guess where I stand.

I made exactly two trades last year; in and out once each. I'm up 15%. I hope trading will afford me the ability to not be a burden on my children.
 
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04) What has surprised you the most about the day-to-day grind? Critical success factors?

05) What exactly has trading given you? Prestige? Control? Freedom? Huge cash reserves? :D
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4) I was surprised to find out through trading how stupid I am.

5) Trading has given me stress. There are better things to stare at than charts, I'd much rather be a gynecologist.
 
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4) I was surprised to find out through trading how stupid I am.

5) Trading has given me stress. There are better things to stare at than charts, I'd much rather be a gynecologist.
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Becareful what you wish for... I don't think you gave that enough thought :)
 
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01) What first attracted you to the profession? Money- I always thought I deserved more than what I was making

02) What has kept you in it? Perseverance will to succeed- I don't think of doing anything else

03) How does it compare to other career(s) that you may have been first involved in? Upsides, downsides? No security or guarantee starting out but if you work towards it can be very rewarding - u take 100% of rewards if u r good

04) What has surprised you the most about the
day-to-day grind? Critical success factors? That
almost all the books I read had it all wrong- the
unlearning was the hardest and the time devoted to it - one day is totally different from next both in profits and losses if you break discipline/ rules etc

05) What exactly has trading given you? Prestige? Control? Freedom? Huge cash reserves? :D
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I made exactly two trades last year; in and out once each. I'm up 15%. I hope trading will afford me the ability to not be a burden on my children.
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I hope you are getting active trader rates with all that volume.
 
Quote from JRL:

Hi All,

Just thought it'd be interesting to hear some commentary from some of the people on here who's primary source of income is through trading. A few questions:

01) What first attracted you to the profession?

02) What has kept you in it?

03) How does it compare to other career(s) that you may have been first involved in? Upsides, downsides?

04) What has surprised you the most about the day-to-day grind? Critical success factors?

05) What exactly has trading given you? Prestige? Control? Freedom? Huge cash reserves? :D
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Seventeen years of Freedom.
 
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Seventeen years of Freedom.
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BINGO. Two observations:
1) Any of you who are 40+ males...and looking for work in the USA...LISTEN-UP:
You are the new "niggah"...the minority.
All of the corporate "diversity" initiatives going on further this situation. That's right, and it's confirmed by the fact there are no blacks at the Tea Parties. Why not ? So as not to bite the hand that feeds them.

2) Any of you still in the IT profession that has been largely outsourced to chinese and indians ? If you try to find a job, you will only find temporary work...and then you'll discover that the temp agencies RULE YOUR WORLD, and YOU ARE A SLAVE. I thought it had been abolished.....
NOT in this environment. It's awful.

Trading = freedom !
 
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