Spread Betting. Who are we?

wackypete2 · Jan 19, 2011, 4:21pm

Tell him you could always go back to you old job as a professional bank robber in case your trading is not up to par. Having a back up plan scores many points with the father-in-law!

Peter

Pazienza · Jan 19, 2011, 4:29pm

If some little toerag turned up wanting to take my daughter out and saying he was planning to be a full-time spread better, I'd kick his @rse and set the dogs on him.

advfntrader · Jan 19, 2011, 4:32pm

splitlink - you really 78 ? must be the oldest spreadbetter on the planet ? lol

wackypete2 · Jan 19, 2011, 4:45pm

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Originally Posted by Pazienza

If some little toerag turned up wanting to take my daughter out and saying he was planning to be a full-time spread better, I'd kick his @rse and set the dogs on him.

Post some pics or video here. Share the lulz.

Peter

redart · Jan 19, 2011, 4:47pm

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Originally Posted by Splitlink

As an afterthought, though, if you went to his house and he asked you what you did for a living and you answered "Oh, I spreadbet"

Well, that's what the thread appears to be about.
What should he have said? Do you mean he should have said he was a 'trader' rather than a 'spread better'??

Anyway, OP, How long have you been trading, and how successful have you been?

Personally, i've always tried to keep my 'trading' on the down low! I understand that people will think its a silly pipedream (maybe it is) so I like to pretty much keep it all to myself.
Im personally a big fan of lying my ass off in situations like that, especially if you are new to trading and have no track record. Would have told him I was a *insert respectable job* and told my girlfriend to back me up with my lie before meeting him.

Mind you, if he called me a 'daydreaming jobless idiot!' I would have been tempted to rub my finger up the blade of a big knife and then stare him in the eyes and say 'you have no idea what im capable of...." I like doing funny things like that.

Splitlink · Jan 19, 2011, 4:58pm

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Originally Posted by redart

Well, that's what the thread appears to be about.
What should he have said? Do you mean he should have said he was a 'trader' rather than a 'spread better'??

Anyway, OP, How long have you been trading, and how successful have you been?

Personally, i've always tried to keep my 'trading' on the down low! I understand that people will think its a silly pipedream (maybe it is) so I like to pretty much keep it all to myself.
Im personally a big fan of lying my ass off in situations like that, especially if you are new to trading and have no track record. Would have told him I was a *insert respectable job* and told my girlfriend to back me up with my lie before meeting him.

Mind you, if he called me a 'daydreaming jobless idiot!' I would have been tempted to rub my finger up the blade of a big knife and then stare him in the eyes and say 'you have no idea what im capable of...." I like doing funny things like that.

Best not to have told him anything. I agree with you. An insult like that would have put me off him for good!

wackypete2 · Jan 19, 2011, 5:04pm

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Originally Posted by advfntrader

splitlink - you really 78 ? must be the oldest spreadbetter on the planet ? lol

ouch....where's the love there?
Does Split win some sort of t2w prize? Oh he can't...too many posts.

Peter

tomorton · Jan 19, 2011, 7:02pm

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Originally Posted by Splitlink

I don't think that "addicted" is the correct word. I like profits as much as the next person but addiction suggests obsession.

There, also, seems to be a dislike of being called a gambler but spreadbetting is gambling. That is why the tax authorities do not tax it--one is betting on the upward or downward movement of an instrument, be it a share, index, commodity or anything else. It is not like a future where it is possible to take delivery.

I know what I am doing, I'm gambling, albeit as intelligently as I know how.

The good part is that, at my age, I do not have to explain it to a prospective father-in-law.

I am happily addicted to money (coming in) and will be until I have enough money to be able to ignore money (going out). Money won't change my life or make me a better person (ironically, I don't want to be, so perhaps that means I need to be) but it would allow me to do everything I enjoy now, only more so.

I am happy to be thought of as gambling on the stock market. I would love to be described as a professional gambler, it sounds so caddish, so rakish, such a dangerous person to know.....

Jan 19, 2011, 4:21pm	#17
wackypete2 Legendary Member Member Since Sep 2008 8,999 Posts	Re: Spread Betting. Who are we? Tell him you could always go back to you old job as a professional bank robber in case your trading is not up to par. Having a back up plan scores many points with the father-in-law! Peter __________________ ************************************************ ***************** I'm not into Fundamentals. I'd trade anything for T & A ********************************************** *******************

Jan 19, 2011, 4:29pm	#18
Pazienza Banned Member Since Jan 2011 2,340 Posts	Re: Spread Betting. Who are we? If some little toerag turned up wanting to take my daughter out and saying he was planning to be a full-time spread better, I'd kick his @rse and set the dogs on him.

Jan 19, 2011, 4:32pm	#19
advfntrader Veteran Member Member Since Mar 2008 739 Posts	Re: Spread Betting. Who are we? splitlink - you really 78 ? must be the oldest spreadbetter on the planet ? lol

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