Is Your Trading Creating Conflict Between You and Your Partner?

We've just published a new T2W article called "Is Your Trading Creating Conflict Between You and Your Partner?" by Dr. M. Woodruff Johnson.

Quick Summary: Dr Woody Johnson discusses the impact that trading can have on personal relationships and offers suggestions as to how to respond when faced with issues relating to it.

PS. Don't forget to rate the article after you've read it and share your comments on this thread.

The reason for that is that it's a lot easier to write about the soft sciences than hard ones. Which is why the majority of articles presented for our review are all the same flavour of over generalised apply-to-all aspects of your life and it will work out just fine drivel like this.

My guess is ‘Carol’ wouldn’t give a sh|t if it was gambling, trading, gun running or any other of a million other ways to generate income as long as the money is coming in. There’s the rub.

If ‘Allen’ was consistently profitable, they’d be playing with each others navels – not gazing into them.

Still, if the trading doesn’t work out, he can always become a trading psychology writer.

It's a peculiarly American thing to assign names to fictitious characters when writing articles about the peripheral aspects of trading. They also seem to constantly allude to sporting metaphors.
Why is it so annoying to English readers? Perhaps because it's so childish, like reading primers for the under threes.

For me, the harder and more analytical and informative the article the better, rather than this soft underbelly or navel gazing stuff.
Richard

Anyway, who the hell needs someone else to tell them what to say to their spouse/partner ?
Are we really so emotionally immature to have to be told?

The article's Yukspeak trading advice is of no help unless you have an understanding, intelligent and reasonable partner in which case you wouldn't need the advice anyway! In the situation described, you can't trade properly so the solution is to get rid of either your partner or your trading.

Mrs 0007 doesn't need or want to understand or interfere with my trading but appreciates the benefits; likewise me with her kitchen.

"I need to talk with you about a difficult issue." Tried that - the bruise hasn't quite faded yet.

You should never have told your wife about her

Yeah- bet that stopped you talkin' in your sleep