You know you're a trader when...

[Doomberg]

brettus you evil man thats a terrible thing to say, i lost my japanese girlfriend in that damn tsunami!

But as they always say, there are plenty more in the sea :whistling

 

[HowardCohodas]

You sir, have just shared a valuable nugget of information :smart:

How would one go about getting these notifications?

Earthquake Notification Service

 

[Doomberg]

Thankyou, reppies

 

[donaldduke]

You know you're a trader when you've been butt raped by the market so often that it no longer hurts

 

[Doomberg]

When you measure day to day things in pips, eg cancelling your morning jog because its value is 3 pips

 

[tar]

... when u lose money !

 

[rc450]

you've got a fan covered in sh*t!

and you can't find the power switch

 

[HawkTrader]

You're having sex and when you are near to the happy ending you withdraw halfway in case you end up back at your entry level. Or is that just me?

Yep, just you. No other trader has sex because they're too busy getting fat, balding and farting from sitting at the screens all day.

 

[Black Swan]

I think i would go as far as saying. You hope for a natural disaster to make some money. Actually that's a little too far. =/. I hope that reactor blows up....I guess it's bad to say it. But then if i donate money to the Japan earthquake disaster fund, that makes it right. right?

You're not serious are you? We talk about zero sum games, do you recognise/accept that, for example, oil rising to $150 due to continual ME instability and disastrous crusades may have shocking global/social consequences ultimately killing any personal gain we may make as individual traders? The uprisings in Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria etc. were not caused by 'hopey changey democracy' ideals, they were caused by commodity prices rising and lack of employment, a cause and effect you could lay at the door of our global bankster elite.

I'd also suggest that normal market randomness and the continual instability conditions are preferable to make money for us bottom of the food chain traders, as opposed to outlier black swan events.

 

[Doomberg]

You know you're a trader when your friend phones and says "whats up" and you respond with
"the dow by 180 points"

 

[HowardCohodas]

You know you are a nerd when you answer "What's nu?" with "C over Lambda."

 

[HowardCohodas]

You know you're working too late at the computer center when you calculate your checkbook balance in octal. (Actually happened to me)

 

[Doomberg]

When you're in spain but have clocks set to EST

 

[iota]

You're not serious are you? We talk about zero sum games, do you recognise/accept that, for example, oil rising to $150 due to continual ME instability and disastrous crusades may have shocking global/social consequences ultimately killing any personal gain we may make as individual traders? The uprisings in Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria etc. were not caused by 'hopey changey democracy' ideals, they were caused by commodity prices rising and lack of employment, a cause and effect you could lay at the door of our global bankster elite.

I'd also suggest that normal market randomness and the continual instability conditions are preferable to make money for us bottom of the food chain traders, as opposed to outlier black swan events.

Do you read ZeroHedge perchance?

Rest of the thread was much lol.

 

[shadowninja]

You know you're a trader when your friend phones and says "whats up" and you respond with
"the dow by 180 points"

Guilty as charged.

"Sup?" has had me respond with "The euro by about 50 pips" in the past.

 

[Doomberg]

When your calendar has important things like anniversaries, birthdays AND options expiration

 

[Doomberg]

When breaking open the Bollinger is a way of acknowledging possible success...

And not just when you see someone drinking it

 

[new_trader]

You end a Messenger conversation with "Buy" instead of "Bye"

 

[arabianights]

You know you're working too late at the computer center when you calculate your checkbook balance in octal. (Actually happened to me)

That's how you know you're an old nerd Howard

 

[HowardCohodas]

That's how you know you're an old nerd Howard

You're right about that. The first programming I did was with punch cards and paper tape and core memory was actually made up of doughnut shaped ferrite cores.