Why traders get no respect

I don't know about respect, but just about everyone I know(extended family, friends, ex-girlfriends, and ex-clients) are all jealous of what I do for a living. :D
 
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and you put that to clean your teeth?!:confused:
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If you must know, I take a small quantity of it and try to keep it in my mouth for 5 to 30 minutes. But to each his own. I am sure there are products out there that do the job just as well and are only slightly more toxic, while costing about 1000% more. Or you can always stop eating (and drinking!) sugar.
 
The basic question to ask is: Should I be persuing a career/vocation in medecine, plumbing, law, welding, engineering, etc? Should I be building something with my hands? Should I be sitting behind a desk 9-5. Or should I be trading stocks for a living. Let your heart answer the questions and you will know what your true desire is.
Trading stocks is not the calling of every heart.
 
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Sorry but money can't buy health. If you had $100 million and were diagnosed with a terminal illness that money won't mean anything.

And I do not have an "excess amount of money". I just manage my money fairly well and have a desire to try to give back a little by volunteering. I don't need a lot of "stuff" to be happy which is why I disagree with the premise that money buys happiness.

Regarding your statement on 99.9999% of people won't find love without money ... well, I guess I fell into the 0.0001% then because she accepts me and loves me whether I make or lose money on any given day. And if I have a bad year so what? Life goes on. And you can be healthy without money. Proper diet and exercise are the crux of it, trust me. I've been to the doctor 3 times in the last 7 1/2 years since I started trading. Exercise is a daily part of my routine.

Not trying to get into a debate since I know I'm not the norm who thinks materialistic things will make me happy. In reality I think more people who have a lot of "stuff" are actually unhappy and continue to buy and acquire stuff to fill the other voids in their life (such as a bad marriage, etc.). Money can buy "happiness" short term for lots of people, whether it be by buying more "stuff", drinking, doing drugs, partying. But, those "good feelings" wear off in a short time and then they need a new "fix".
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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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You guys are on different wavelengths and I think you're debating from opposite extremes. Both of you have a valid point if you understand where the other is coming from.

About your statement about finding love and health without money... If you had NO money, you probably won't have health or love. Picture this scenario: You are picked up from your house with only the shirt on your back and flown and dropped off in a poor country. You have no wallet, no bank account, nothing material, no friends or contacts. The place you are at has no paved roads, no sewer systems, no clean water (think of some places in China, Africa, India, Middle East) and try to live there for the rest of your life. I think the point he is trying to make is that you will likely focus your attention on basic needs instead of love and health. Because we are living in a first world country that does not have to worry about basic needs, then we have the luxury of pursuing other things. Without money, you will probably fall victim to malnutrion and not have the health you are referring to.

Like I said, both points are valid but you guys are talking on polar extremes. I hope you can see it now and respect the point the other is making without getting into a nasty debate.

DNAJ65000
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Good post. If i read the whole thread before typing my other post, could have saved me some time. lol
 
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It is a solution of roughly 3% hydrogen peroxide and 97% water. Comes in brown bottles.
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Is that better known as Hydrogen Peroxide? Use it to clean cuts? You keep it in your mouth for 30 minutes?

What does it do, exactly, to help your teeth. Not to turn this into a dental thread, but you have peaked my interest.

Thanks.
 
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