stevet said:Gordon Gekko
yes, i got tired of my old job, and i wanted to make more money, so i thought i would give brain surgery a chance
i decided to give it a year to see how it would go. So, i got a few books, found some kind people on the internet to let me pay them for a day or two training (they promised me real brains to operate on, but had to make do with a lettuce, but the trainers were real nice people, were only doing the training as they liked to help people, and assured me they did brain surgery everyday).
anyway, realised i could not get into private health surgery straight out the trap, so decided to try being a vet first, my daughter still cries over that "bloody" cat now, but i kept a bit of its brain for the selfish kid
a bunch of animals down the line (maybe i should have bought real instruments and not used that knife and fork, but i thought as i was starting out that i didn't need professional instruments) - i decided to have a bash at trading instead - so here i am - all hyped up and ready to take spreadbetting companies to the cleaners!
one strange thing though -all the kids working in the spreadbetting companies dont seem to have any interest in trading after seeing how it works -and all want to become brain surgeons -mmmmm - maybe i should become a brain surgeon trainer
Doesn't really matter if it's 1p or £50 per point - 20-50pts/day is impressive all by itself - whatever your trading capital.Zenda said:Gandoo makes between 20 and 50 points a day - well done - now is that at 1p per point or £50 per point - as the latter would impress me!!! -
Gordon Gekko said:And Steve, I presume you're saying this based on your experience of trying to learn brain surgery by buying a few £40 textbooks and visiting some brain surgery chat rooms and taking advice from fellow enthusiastic teach yourself brain surgeon wannabes who have impressed others with their self-proclaimed surgical skills and vocab like middle cerebral artery, basal ganglia. Or perhaps you've even attended a seminar or two organised by Mr Darren Winters, Consultant Brain Surgeon at St Gullible Hospital. And maybe in a year or two or maybe 3 like you say you could be operating on a few brains.
No im dismayed, but i think if you tell anyone contemplating day trading that it'll take you 6 years to make a living from it it would worry them. Besides, Purple states that he doesnt do it fulltime anyway!
Trader333 said:A couple of people I know who Spreadbet have also told me that having an independant datafeed is of vital importance. In the cases where they have been stopped out by a SB spike, they have then checked their own datafeed and if it is not confirmed they call up and get the stop out removed. This requires taking a screenshot of the live feed but if you have the evidence in front of you they are in a pretty poor position to counter the argument.
Paul
CityTrader said:coming from someone who can't even spell Manhattan I actually agree 100% with what you say- pretty much exactly my argument of a few months ago ( think i used " learn to be a dentist" as an example!!)
Gordon Gekko said:CityTrader said:coming from someone who can't even spell Manhattan I actually agree 100% with what you say- pretty much exactly my argument of a few months ago ( think i used " learn to be a dentist" as an example!!)[/QUOTE
Well for someone with as many stars as you I might just well change the spelling. But then again I can't really be bothered to do it for a pompous ex-city guy who couldn't cut the mustard and now "spread bets" for a living.
That's a bit harsh GG!......
City Trader actually agrees with you!
I like that!Trendie said:I hope you guys are as good at trading the markets as you are at trading insults! :!: :cheesy: