Why traders get no respect

I'm not getting any of this.

What's going on? Traders get no respect?

I don't know where you live, but where I live, money is king.

People think I'm a prodigy because I can actually make money on the markets (that is theoretically impossible, remember?)

"The people" are always extremely friendly, they all want to be the first to talk to me at parties - mostly trying to get a "hot tip" out of me and / or to tell me their great stories about how they just made a killing buying AMP shares on some hot tip.

I then have to piss off person XYZ a 10,000th time trying to explain that I am a short-term trader and not interested in stocks, not to mention earnings, mergers, and rumours.

I mean I really explain it in a friendly way, but people seem to take offense, and I'm the "secretive guy". I guess that's something traders have to live with, or so people say.

That's the only downside to it. On the other hand, I have a nice life, complete spatial freedom, great friends and nobody who disrespects me, other than a few trolls on ET. :p

I can have any girl I want and the bank manager remembers my name.

What else would you want?

Respect? From whom??? Pfft! Who needs it!

Relax and get a life.

~Scientist
 
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If I say.... money can buy anything you want. And you happen to want the whole entire universe. Well, I've been beat! You speak of a .00000001%. I speak of the rest.

I am trying to say, without money, you can never be happy. HEALTH requires money believe it or not! I dunno your age, but if your in your 30-40s... then, probably not. 50's you gotta have some money... 60s.. ohh yeah.. 70s... hell yeah, 80s... well then again, how did you survive to this point? Its because where you live. YOU LIVE IN A RICH COUNTRY! WHy is our water so clean? Why is the air so clean? I don't care how often you excercise, people working in the crappiest conditions, are too hardworking and excercise their body on a daily basis. But do they have the luxuries that money has bought? Clean water... and clean food... and clean air? Nope... I strongly suggest you take a visit to rapid growing industrial nations such as Thailand. Sure... Phuket, Chaing Mai look awesome. STep into bangkok, and you'll be hiding in your hotel all day. The air and water in bangkok is literally piss poor. Thats why they always recommend purchasing bottled water there. Anyways, if the people living there had money, I'D bet they'd buy their way outta there! Or atleast buy small house and live a decent life anywhere else! But guess what... most jobs are in Bangkok, and people gotta live right? So tell to them.... money can't buy health. We are just living in America, with our clean air, and clean water.... and paying for it with our tax dollars... for no reason. Because we can't buy health after all right?

Ohh yeah, your wifes love for you grew out of money too! Unless she is some saint. Would she have married you if you were working at TACO BELL making minimum wage? And the only place you can afford to bring her to dates is again.. where you work... TACO BELL! LOL! That is true love right there. But then again, I highly doubt you were working such a job. I doubt you were taking the bus to work everyday. I doubt you were living in some low income housing area. So I ask again, would she have married you if you didn't have what you had(WHICH MONEY BOUGHT)? Then again, a decent car... a decent house... a wedding ring... a nice bed to sleep on? Occasionally going out to a nice resturaunt? A computer! Those are all materialistic things. And we could all live without it. So be the man you say you are! and donate it all! Join the peace corps and volunteer the rest of your life. If you can't do that... you are just another one of us Greedy Money Loving fools.

xbrxx
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xbrxx: I agree with you. A lot of things are good when you have money. When you are hard poor , then also every big love will finish into daily hunt for food, water, some money to live, to have some place to live etc.
With money you can live much easier in our era.

And also a lot of living basics (like described clean water, air, heat water) is because our part of world is rich and can provide these things. Living in Asia could mean that you wil have no water (not only heat but no one in some places in same days.

So money are necessary base for our living. I feel it this way and also that is why I want to have a lot of money. I want to have money to be INDEPENDENT of anybody (I bought large part of land to build there nice place for living which will be very inependent).

Thre is also another big difference between trading and having another good job. You can stop trading for a few days /weeks and then come back and find market and possibilities to earn money. But try to stop your company which is providing services or good for several weeks, and after this time you will have no customers, no market, your company is out of market. So trading is about to be independent. But it is probably about different topic.

Have a nice day and keep trading well
:D :p :cool:
 
Quote from maggandre:



Is that better known as Hydrogen Peroxide? Use it to clean cuts? You keep it in your mouth for 30 minutes?
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Yes, you just have to be careful to get the "regular" 3% one, not the 30% or 33%, which would destroy the mucous membranes in your mouth within fractions of a second.

What it does is very simple: It breaks down into water and oxygen. The water is completely harmless, and the oxygen destroys germs and many organic colors. Peroxides are also used for bleaching hair and whitening teeth. The big advantage is that it is completely non-toxic. If it does not "burn" you on contact, it will not harm you even if used daily for years. Can you say the same thing about all the butyl-hexa-cyclo-4-diethyl-thingies in your average mouth wash? How confident are you really that the few lab rats that contracted cancer when exposed to Listerine were statistically insignificant?
 
Quote from WDGann:

You don't get respect, you earn it.
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That's a lie which is very popular in totalitarian political systems. And it has a very convenient implication: The jew/homosexual/capitalist/Iraqi/pacifist/etc. has not done anything for me lately, so his being a human with a right to life, freedom, etc. need not be respected.

Fear is learned, respect can be given.
 
Quote from Tea:

The only respect worth striving for is self-respect.
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A very sad point of view, but after living amongst humans for 27 years, I have come to share it.
 
Quote from Lobster:



A very sad point of view...
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Its happy, not sad.

It is boiling things down to what is essential. Instead of running around trying to impress others and get their respect - you simply live the life you want to live and be as decent a person as you can.

Don't waste your energy on trivial matters. Life is too short.

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Quote from Lobster:



That's a lie which is very popular in totalitarian political systems. And it has a very convenient implication: The jew/homosexual/capitalist/Iraqi/pacifist/etc. has not done anything for me lately, so his being a human with a right to life, freedom, etc. need not be respected.

Fear is learned, respect can be given.
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100% Agree.

Fundamental truth.

~Scientist
 
Quote from Tea:



Its happy, not sad.

It is boiling things down to what is essential. Instead of running around trying to impress others and get their respect - you simply live the life you want to live and be as decent a person as you can.

Don't waste your energy on trivial matters. Life is too short.

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Equally excellent comment.

This is all that matters.

AMEN.
 
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