Regarding health, I couldn't agree more. Which is a big reason I think retirement in general is not only a myth for many, but is something that...
Assuming you are living solely off your retirement and not any transfer payments, you are likely one of a few examples who are able to do this...
I can agree with that. But my point is that the myth of comfortable retirement, or rather, the attainment of comfortable retirement through...
Live on $40K? Where? Going where, driving what? And with what quality of life? Besides, if you expect a 4% return on that million, chances are the...
Awesome. So you spend your entire life working your ass off while living in the US and paying US taxes, just so that when you really need (maybe...
Pretty cool. The article sounds almost hysterical, just like the OP. So, you mean when some fund decides that AMGN is a good long term buy,...
Making a consistent 300K trading year in, year out is a very tough feat. Lescor, very cool of you to have posted an update. One thing I was...
I think another factor to his end was the fact that he had no kids. While clearly an outstanding individual, his late life likely had little...
I remember the late 90's and the latest decade very well. I did retail at one point and prop at another. In short, if you are focused on...
I used a couple but ended up writing my own. If you need something to start off with, try ChartDirector. I built a real-time control on top of...
It seems that you might better benefit from applying yourself more to trading than to reading. When you gain more experience you'll understand the...
How to put this plainly... it doesn't. No system "works" on any timeframe. You might as well learn this early on. The whole argument that a...
Turtle traders were not day traders and certainly were not involved in anything even resembling HFT. I actually am in favor of longer term...
Spot on. BTW, the combination of this knowlege - expert C++, CLR, systems, etc. and intimate understanding of markets and complex products is...
Achilles made a key point: BT is decentralized. Someone else followed up with: the cat is out of the bag. Yes. Just like with bittorrent,...
But that's the thing. You can't grow bitcoins in your back yward. Sure you can mine them, but the cost is prohibitive and there are only so many....
Tulip bubble is not a bad analogy and for a while I felt the same way. After doing more research I changed my mind. I think bitcoin's appeal is...
So, you mean this can't be done? How about this: a $40K account yieldng a BP of $400K (you can get more but you won't need it). Trading an...
I think a lot of analogies here are focused on the outlier type of success. When we look at NFL guys or some prominent business figures we...
This is an interesting take and a valid point. I've witnessed this sort of phenomenon in various places where non-determinism and human behavior...
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