china white
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Socrates spot on.
let me ask everyone a Q - didnt u have those moments when u switch on the screens, have a quick look at the pattern, and u just KNOW where it is gonna go? of which u r properly scared, u don't trade and the market goes exactly the way u KNEW in a flash it'd go?
Intuition? call it that way if u like. But in reality it is YOUR OTHER TRADING SELF manifesting itself of which your "natural" self is obviously sh*t scared
It is when that other self of yours takes full posession of u for 6 1/2 hours every working day that u become what city lads stuck to their "natural selves" call "star trader. how the fcuk does he do it? he must have some inside we don't know about"
BUT do not lollaby yrself - this transition will come at a cost. Your "natural self" is not gonna stay unaffected. Even more scary - ppl will start seeing u differently. My personal story - at the age of 35 I've bn married 5 times and i am not mentioning just girlfriends. Some ran away - they cud not see such transformations 5 days every week. From some I ran since i cud see they r getting in the way of that OTHER self. A "normal" human being does not want that. He wants a steady job with 80 K annual income and a steady g/f who has no reasons to get concerned as her beau is always the same "natural" lad. Trader's life is sadly either a string of meaningless flings or being really - and I mean REALLY - blessed to find a partner who can take that. And it is LOADS to take.
My opinion only. Pls no references to "America Psycho"
let me ask everyone a Q - didnt u have those moments when u switch on the screens, have a quick look at the pattern, and u just KNOW where it is gonna go? of which u r properly scared, u don't trade and the market goes exactly the way u KNEW in a flash it'd go?
Intuition? call it that way if u like. But in reality it is YOUR OTHER TRADING SELF manifesting itself of which your "natural" self is obviously sh*t scared
It is when that other self of yours takes full posession of u for 6 1/2 hours every working day that u become what city lads stuck to their "natural selves" call "star trader. how the fcuk does he do it? he must have some inside we don't know about"
BUT do not lollaby yrself - this transition will come at a cost. Your "natural self" is not gonna stay unaffected. Even more scary - ppl will start seeing u differently. My personal story - at the age of 35 I've bn married 5 times and i am not mentioning just girlfriends. Some ran away - they cud not see such transformations 5 days every week. From some I ran since i cud see they r getting in the way of that OTHER self. A "normal" human being does not want that. He wants a steady job with 80 K annual income and a steady g/f who has no reasons to get concerned as her beau is always the same "natural" lad. Trader's life is sadly either a string of meaningless flings or being really - and I mean REALLY - blessed to find a partner who can take that. And it is LOADS to take.
My opinion only. Pls no references to "America Psycho"