The Hare , or the Tortoise

http://money.cnn.com/2007/07/30/news/newsmakers/yacht_sale/index.htm?postversion=2007073008

I'll give him the cost of a train ticket home for the dinghy.

The older I get the more it seems to me that it's right to get your head on straight when it comes to money , the toys it can buy and the amount of conceit it is prudent to have in your own abilities.
I've seen umpteen of guys like this one race past me in the wealth stakes and I've also seen most of them again at the next 'turn' in the 'wealth road' where they have failed to take the corner and are buried in the 'bankrupcty wall' right up to their 'golden financial bollokcs'.

I don't know who said 'you can't eat like a butterfly and shti like an elephant' ,but they might of thought about it a bit more !

For the Delboy 'lover' ..."he who dares wins"...could also be "he who dares to believe too much in his own infallibility is almost guaranteed to lose"

It's all in the mind afterall.

this guy bet on "idiot loans"?

(isnt wasp looking for a yacht? )

I think the tie is the wrong shade of pink

always amazes me why guys who have made don't just stick it in a rock solid savings account, steam off in their yacht and live high on the hog on the interest alone for the rest of their natural. Why risk it?

On the other hand p'raps £24m is just peanut play money just set aside for enjoying himself in the market.


jon

barjon said:

always amazes me why guys who have made don't just stick it in a rock solid savings account, steam off in their yacht and live high on the hog on the interest alone for the rest of their natural. Why risk it?

On the other hand p'raps £24m is just peanut play money just set aside for enjoying himself in the market.


jon

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Probably for the same reason those who start their trading lives with £500, £1K, £5K, £10K, £25K or £100K don’t do the same. They reckon they can do better.

Most don’t right from the off. And many of those that do manage to get above their starting capital with careful increments, eventually lose the plot, and take the dive in far shorter time that it took to build, and end up wondering why they didn’t just carry on doing it gently. Too boring?

I’m with Chump on this one. Overall, I much preferred finding out slowly just how good I am compared with the 4 times I found out quickly how good I wasn’t…

Wasn’t as much fun getting there on the slow trail, but there is with it a sense of mature satisfaction which unfortunately is not an inherent or natural composite of my psychological architecture. Compensation for this grown-up antibody seeks and finds a number of disparate outlets which overall, I am also quite happy with, mostly.

Just need to keep those cowboy genes away from the trading pot when the devil takes you.

Have a separate account just for scalps Tony.
Works for me when I feel the need for speed.

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Have a separate account just for scalps Tony.
Works for me when I feel the need for speed.

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Love it!

I normally dump an entire £5 on a 100-1....

Hyde's got nothing on me....