Right here, I've thrown keyboards, broken screens, broke the phone hanging up, name it, I've broke it. Cursing like a bat outta hell. Oh I am...
a note: I do not profess to be Tudor Jones nor some trading shrink guru. Take all this with a grain of salt. I have no idea what I'm...
Ask this: What % of fills in your career will you get the price you want? Lot lower than what we want. Consider how much it costs you in...
No, yes, yes, yes, yes. It's #2 that seperates the men from the boys in my book. The moment in your life when you can actually "do it" rather...
See my comment about alcohol above and you are one of the lucky ones without any demons. :cool:
Overtrading: Probably in the all time top 5 if not top 3 list of demons. The problem when facing our demons is that we have over 4 billion - is...
acronym, lol - cute, but not what I was referring to. By the "dark side" I meant that we as traders will always have our demons lurking in...
ksonsinc, That comment is the whole problem isn't it? Further, if you learn from your mistakes but then "do it again", did you really learn...
lol, Last night when I started the post, I was drunk. :D I didn't mean to imply that my demon was alcohol. I was just having a few on a...
Location: NY Type: Salt Species: Fluke, Tog, Stripers, C-bass, Porgies, Tuna, Weakies I know you're out there anglers. :cool:
"Never under estimate the dark side." I don't like threads talking about specific trades/stocks/etc... I prefer the threads talking about the...
lol - of course being drunk, I forgot to start with my own demon. My #1 demon over the years was large losses from a single trade. I had no...
As I sit here on a saturday night - very comfortably drunk :D, I thought I'd write my first post here in the psych room. As you can see from my...
you say, When I was your age, I didn't give a shit about anything but trading. I gave up everything for it. There were many years not going...
Not to crash your thread, but all my new traders used to get a "DO NOT TRADE" list everyday. The high vol stocks you mentioned would most...
I'd like to ask the 19 people so far thinking of quitting... What do you think is the #1 reason that you're having such a hard time these days?...
Thanks to the fifty people who voted. To those suffering: I feel your pains - there is life after trading though. To those in the middle:...
cks, Since you're young, I'm going to give you a break and not hit you over the head with anything rude but... WTF ARE YOU DOING LOOKING AT...
I am surprised to see there aren't any sentiment threads here. With the number of active traders here, I would think this is a worthwhile thread....
Thanks Don, Regardless of what people might say about this business and prop firms, I am glad to see your name is still around. I recall...
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