Who LOVES trading?

elitejets said:
There are two of us, I went to a four day convention in Vegas, not one dime ...
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I should have realised you'd be sensible, Nicola.
I took the family on a road trip one summer long all around the South West and we stayed at the Mandalay Bay and watched all these crazies throwing their money away - amazing !
Richard
 
Masquerade said:
That was not the point of it. Seeing as this isn't going anywhere really.

A few months back I was in a trading chat room and speaking amongst some people. When I said I only did trading for the money and if there was no money in it - I wouldn't bother. I got people hurling abuse at me telling me I wouldn't succeed and that you have to really love it to do well. So I thought. "If they loved it, would they do it without the money?" and "if they love it, why do they need to trade such big size?" - which lead me to conclude they don't love trading, they just love the product you can attain with trading. The trading is just the means to an end. If Mcdonalds paid more than trading there's a good chance they would be down at Mcdonalds asking if you want fries with your meal.
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Exactly. It's like ppl saying they "love" their jobs but what if no $$$ was involved? A lot of ppl are disillusioned into thinking that they love their job, when it is just a means to an end.
 
trade2finind said:
Exactly. It's like ppl saying they "love" their jobs but what if no $$$ was involved? A lot of ppl are disillusioned into thinking that they love their job, when it is just a means to an end.
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Not entirely true, some jobs are vocational or even voluntary so have an intrinsic value attached to them that money can't buy.
 
Mr. Charts said:
I should have realised you'd be sensible, Nicola.
I took the family on a road trip one summer long all around the South West and we stayed at the Mandalay Bay and watched all these crazies throwing their money away - amazing !
Richard
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I wasn't too far off that, only had a small go at blackjack, had $100 in chips, 3 losses and i walked, 3 wins in a row and i would walk after the first loss.

Too easy to do $$$$ there, the gambling mst would descend, much like revenge trading.

Mandalay is nice, I stayed in the Luxor next door.
 
loving it love it

N Rothschild said:
gambling is the finest thing a man can do, if he is good at it!

lucky im good at it eh
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mask for me i can live where i want,no early mornings,no boss, take each day as what u get, works for me,found having money is not everything,but it beats having nothing and making your own choices,hope it never ends:love:
 
I suppose you have to 'love it' to do it well.

To do most specialised/hard things well you have to love do them.

Otherwise you wont make it over the learning curve.

However the way the OP emphasised the word love, i got the impression he wanted people who regarded trading to be the most intense thing in their lives. The thing they felt most passionate about..

At some point i must of felt like that, otherwise i couldn't have put the hours in to learn this business.

The promise of big money was also a big motivator too, but on its own it would not have been enough to make it.
 
donaldduke said:
However the way the OP emphasised the word love, i got the impression he wanted people who regarded trading to be the most intense thing in their lives. The thing they felt most passionate about..

At some point i must of felt like that, otherwise i couldn't have put the hours in to learn this business.

The promise of big money was also a big motivator too, but on its own it would not have been enough to make it.
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Have you never read someone say: "trading's my life, without it i'm nothing" or words to that effect.

Maybe you didn't put the hours in because you loved it, but because you hated the alternative?
 
As I see it:



I love the freedom that trading can and does bring. The motivation to me is not that of material things, or the money that it can bring (although that is a bonus). Money can buy many nice things but what it buys which is most important is time. I despise the thought of clocking in and out of a meaningless job, day after day. Doing the same thing, in the same old routine. When trading, every day is different and has its own challenges.



If McDonalds paid more I still wouldn't sell my life to them..... I would trade.
 
Rossini said:
I love the freedom that trading can and does bring. The motivation to me is not that of material things, or the money that it can bring (although that is a bonus). Money can buy many nice things but what it buys which is most important is time
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What style of trading do you implement and on an average day how much screen time will you put in?

I don't think it's time you're trying to buy either. If you want loads of time, become unemployed and sign on. It's not time you want, rather the quality of leisure time.
 
Masquerade said:
What style of trading do you implement and on an average day how much screen time will you put in?

I don't think it's time you're trying to buy either. If you want loads of time, become unemployed and sign on. It's not time you want, rather the quality of leisure time.
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I swing trade and scalp. I should have said it can buy choices. What one does with the choices is up to them. And as for being unemployed, in my view that should only be the case if someone has no choice!
 
Rossini said:
I swing trade and scalp. I should have said it can buy choices. What one does with the choices is up to them. And as for being unemployed, in my view that should only be the case if someone has no choice!
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How many hours a day would you say you're sat by a computer watching charts?
 
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