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Mimi8
Hello all, Im a newbie to the forum, Albeit I have been reading your posts for a while as I have been researching the net on common technical and no so technical info.
This is my first post, my first thread, its going to be about me, so you have been warned, if you dont want to read please stop now and pick up your ft, look away now!
I am currently running the rat race 9-5, I am a graduate with a 2.2. (ha ha!, I think my degree is the biggest joke in the world)
I fell I'll during my second year at uni and during this period of sickness I was coughing blood and guts! my average grade plumeted to a paltry 40, my first year av. had been a 60 (I remember passing my first probability assignment without revising because I was an arrogant girl and I could!)and my third year average grade was a 75, however no matter how hard I worked my perky butt cheeks off, I just couldnt pull it off and I got a 2.2, instead of a 2.1 or a 1.
It doesnt matter. I dont resent the system, I was advised to fail a year and try again but the uni would not understand that fail is not a word I like in my vocabulary.
That was a few years ago. Upon graduation I got my first job in a retail bank. I am sitting here earning 38k a year (thats nothing compared to what some of my hedge fund analyst clients earn who are my age or a year or two younger than me), the reason they hired me is not because of the 2.2 i did get or because of the 2.1 i like to think I should have had. No, its because they liked the fact that I can work very hard and have been doing so since I was 16, I can blag and I can sell so I signed on the dotted line and here I am.
I have learned lots, however now Im looking at my so called bank benefactors who took me under their sweaty corporate wing and nurtured me to be the little capitalist I am growing to be.
Too bad that one of the perks of working at a bank is that you realise how much everybody earns and now, guess what; I realised that to my bosses I'm nothing but cheap labour. YES cheap labour, I wont go into the details of how I worked it out. The point being that I realised that I can do more, that I can study and learn more and consequently earn lots more and not endure the things I do endure to keep my job.
So Im looking at analytics, trading, prop trading, algo trading. I think because of the extra ordinary times we live in, by that I mean extraordinary in that information can be easily available (not insider information tho!) by that mean free analyst information and quasi trading platforms out there (i.e. moneyam, trade ideas etc) Im starting to think it is just a question of learning the rules of the game and get down and play it with someone elses chips (prop trading maybe?)
But what I really want to know is how many of you successfull traders are ourt there?
My measure of success is that you are happy, healthy, loaded and you are sustainable i.e. you have been trading for a few years and forsee that to continue to be the case.
Many thanks and I look forward to learning from you out there.
xxx
