You Can't Trade Without A College Degree!!
- Thread starter wallnbroad
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You called me BullznBears and say that's not derogatory?
You have issues.
Being called Icarus could be construed by me as a compliment, but the BnB thing is an insult, plain and simple.
Perhaps you could contribute to the thread or get the fuck out?
Up to you, I'll keep this arguing shit up as long as you want to though, it always gives me a nice warm feeling to make fools of people like you with nothing better to do than troll.
So back to the original topic:
If you really want to try trading for a living, try to get a good service job that you can dop in the evening or off hours:
1. Waiter
2. Bartender
3. Office work if you live in a metropolitan area
4. Paralegal
Are just a few of the legitimate jobs you can get while purusing a career in trading, and you don't need a college degree for any of them.
Point-in-fact, you might not be able to make the transition to being a fulltime trader if you have too much invested in the corporate world ... once you begin to rap your mind around the concept that you can make in a month's time what you previously made in year, the barriers to what you believe are possible are going to start dropping by the wayside.
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If you really want to try trading for a living, try to get a good service job that you can dop in the evening or off hours:
1. Waiter
2. Bartender
3. Office work if you live in a metropolitan area
4. Paralegal
Are just a few of the legitimate jobs you can get while purusing a career in trading, and you don't need a college degree for any of them.
Point-in-fact, you might not be able to make the transition to being a fulltime trader if you have too much invested in the corporate world ... once you begin to rap your mind around the concept that you can make in a month's time what you previously made in year, the barriers to what you believe are possible are going to start dropping by the wayside.
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,hahah.. actually, i admit I may be mistaken. I got this crazy idea from following the original bullsnbearz advertising threads, and it seemed Jay (bullsnbearsz) went through a rapid phase of creating multiple IDs to contribute to his discussions and back them up. Reaver was amongst top aliases. Now maybe I misread something and just made a flawed assumption...
Regardless, a lot of self congratulatory talk ... with so much, I couldn't help but conclude my assumption was correct. Well then I stand corrected.
And on the original topic: unless you are a lucky SOB (with a dream of a trading system, or just had a stroke of luck in picking chains of winners), and additionally are properly capitalized to trade, you'll make a lot more $$ with a degree / climbing up the corporate ladder than you will trading.
If you don't have the discipline to complete college, the odds are you don't have the discipline to properly execute a trading system over years. The point has been well made that connections formed are more worthwhile than content learned for the vast majority of majors. Especially nontechnical majors (show me how many EEs or physicians exist without college degrees).
And of course there's an exception to every point I just stated; those are few and far between.
I have a hard time believing anyone who can actually conceive of, program/backtest a quantitative trading system *that works* has any interest in spending energy wondering or supporting the argument that a college education is unnecessary.
Because of course its not, but if you are pursuing $$$ and employment (ie work with others), its much easier by having it.
Desire trumps discipline if you believe in execution. I went to college to make my FAMILY happy. I left because I wasnt happy. I had a lousy 3.5 because I was so unhappy.
My desire was for what I do today. Music and trading.
2 years after I walked away from college I started trading. I paid my way through college with my Music career.
Dont think it's all about Discipline. DESIRE is a major issue. SOme people do what they do because of others expectations and not their own personal desire.
Most people dont figure out WHO they are until they are 27 or 28. MOST, not ALL!!!!!
Oddly enough I knew what I wanted to do when I was a teenager, but I allowed my Pastor and my Parents to convince me that I was TOO SMART to do what I wanted to do and that I should get a degree. I bought into that BS till I realized I was unhappy chasing their opinions for me.
My desire was for what I do today. Music and trading.
2 years after I walked away from college I started trading. I paid my way through college with my Music career.
Dont think it's all about Discipline. DESIRE is a major issue. SOme people do what they do because of others expectations and not their own personal desire.
Most people dont figure out WHO they are until they are 27 or 28. MOST, not ALL!!!!!
Oddly enough I knew what I wanted to do when I was a teenager, but I allowed my Pastor and my Parents to convince me that I was TOO SMART to do what I wanted to do and that I should get a degree. I bought into that BS till I realized I was unhappy chasing their opinions for me.
brilliant comeback...