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[c6ackp]

I visited the home of nobel prize winning author Rudyard Kipling yesterday. I was surprised to learn that he also had an interest in trading:


If

If you can keep your position when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on hedge funds,
If you can trust yourself when all finance professors doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait for a signal and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating the markets,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
If you can trade--and not make trading your aim;
If you can meet with Profit and Loss
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth of price action
Twisted by market makers to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the trades you gave your life to, stopped out,
And stoop and build 'em up from a small pot:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it wisely on each turn of the markets,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "I'm bullish!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with fund managers --nor lose the common touch,
If neither losses nor profits can hurt you;
If all men trade with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of checking the daily,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Trader, my son!


--Rudyard C6ipling

 

[Trader333]

I remember when he also made "exceedingly good cakes" ?


Paul