What is your "normal " profession?
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Used to be a high end management consultant in finance but when hired to provide a Fortune 500 company (actually one of largest companies in the world) with a CEO strategy report with a 3-5year timeframe, they didn't like the fact that it was stated they need to change or it would go horribly wrong, parted ways acrimoniously, 4years later they lost $100bn of shareholder capital.
Then realised, no one gives a damn, it's all 'funny money'! So trade Forex and Futures on sub-minute timeframes as you either had to 'play the corporate game' or become a 'minion'. None of which were very appealing as always saw increasing productivity as the end goal, everyone views 'chargeable time' as the end goal which puts you in the direct path of conflict, makes for very short, and direct, conversations though!
Unfortunately in the whole process ended up learning way more than one person should ever know, at a time when people are more clueless than ever. Branson definitely has it correct, move to an island and watch the show from there!
Then realised, no one gives a damn, it's all 'funny money'! So trade Forex and Futures on sub-minute timeframes as you either had to 'play the corporate game' or become a 'minion'. None of which were very appealing as always saw increasing productivity as the end goal, everyone views 'chargeable time' as the end goal which puts you in the direct path of conflict, makes for very short, and direct, conversations though!
Unfortunately in the whole process ended up learning way more than one person should ever know, at a time when people are more clueless than ever. Branson definitely has it correct, move to an island and watch the show from there!
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Top complaint among the "knowers" I speak to is loneliness.
Followed by frustration at the clueless whose character defects make the horror show possible.
Enjoy your lucid contributions here, thank you.
Fantastic, another idiot has 'come to the fore'.
Much appreciated. Yes, those two cover it quite well but better to be quiet than listen to endless amounts 'of noise' from the 'clueless'. It's actually quite easy once you find the first 'noise', then you just need to look for their followers and who they follow!
Here's the trick, life is a 'normal distribution', summary, detail, conclusion. The clueless ones disrupt that process and never have a conclusion that matches the summary, they are stuck in the detail producing endless amounts of 'noise'. One of the interesting things to do is skip the detail and do something more absorbing having the confidence the conclusion will match the summary.
That is trading which is why most can't do it!
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You are 26 and told a CEO that his business would lose 100MM in 4 years and 4 years later it did. So you decided to trade FX on a sub-minute timeframe.
And I'm the idiot whose 'come to the fore?'
$100bn of shareholder capital? Really?
Maybe it was Zim dollars?Yes Marty...
