Why do you trade?

ChristineTrader said:
Hi traders!

A friend of mine has asked me to help her find online traders for her school thesis.
To be able to go further, she has a few questions. Would you guys be so kind to help her out?

1. How old are you?

2. How often do you trade on average?
Daily, weekly or yearly

3. How long have you been trading?

4. How were you introduced to online trading?

5. What is your motivation to trade? Could you explain your motivation?

Appreciate your time! Thank you!!
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1.) Little over 50 (damn where'd the time go :( )

2.) Daily

3.) Little over 16

4.) Trading class I paid too much for the training / education / enlightenment/ exposure I received - least it was tax deductible

5) (1) Money manager lost a significant portion of my retirement (stop loss was a foreign concept to him) .., (2) make money..., (3) the mental challenges - most people / things bore the hell out of me


RN
 
1) Older than dirt.

2) Swing trade stocks. Hold for 2 day to forever if the stock keeps increasing in price. If I make a day trade it’s because my stock hit a stop the same day I entered.


3) 35 years in the market; 15 years active trading.

4) I evolved with the advent of technology; from a full service broker to placing trades by telephone at a discount broker to a direct access online broker.


5) To maintain my lifestyle. I need better returns than a term deposit will give me.


I retired in 2000 then watched the tech wreck decimate my portfolio. I had no idea what to do so I held and eventually recovered but I didn’t want to go through that again. I developed a strategy that allows me to take small bites out of the market, protect my capital and capture a reasonable return. My system had me out of the market in the fall of 2008 missing most of the downturn.


DD
 
1. How old are you? 31

2. How often do you trade on average? Daily, intraday.
Daily, weekly or yearly

3. How long have you been trading? 10 years trading, 12 years obsessed with the market.

4. How were you introduced to online trading? It seemed interesting and something that fit my personality well, also had family with both academia, banking and business background.

5. What is your motivation to trade? Could you explain your motivation? Making a decent but not ridiculous income, finding the holy grail and having a beautiful equity curve.
 
ChristineTrader said:
Hi traders!

A friend of mine has asked me to help her find online traders for her school thesis.
To be able to go further, she has a few questions. Would you guys be so kind to help her out?

1. How old are you?

2. How often do you trade on average?
Daily, weekly or yearly

3. How long have you been trading?

4. How were you introduced to online trading?

5. What is your motivation to trade? Could you explain your motivation?

Appreciate your time! Thank you!!
More...

all the questions are pretty personal to answer,

===Why people trade?===

it' similar to question people asked famous British mountaineer George Malory: "Why do you want to climb Mount Everest?"

"Because it is there"' - answered Malory (he died during the attempt )

Some people attempt to climb the mountain, some others attempt to conquer the trading - that what some people do, they try to achieve something no one (or very few) did before...

Exploration - is a part of a human nature.

But just a few people has that need developed very strongly....

And while for the most of the people exploration ends with a new job or a new house in a new neighborhood, there are some for whom exploration and discovery of what they are made of expressed in sailing solo in a dingy around the world, of flying to the stars...

Going into trading is imho in the same category... and very few survive.

But money is not a motivation for trading, money is a just a result of the success.
 
1. How old are you?
40

2. How often do you trade on average?
Daily, on average 3/4 trades every day.

3. How long have you been trading?
8 years, more than 10 years as an investor.

4. How were you introduced to online trading?
By watching on-line videos and reading finance books.

5. What is your motivation to trade? Could you explain your motivation?
I play the best game in the world. I got an edge so odds are in my favor.

CM
 
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