But why exactly would you want to please anyone? Are you one of these people who have to be liked by everyone? Most people should be ignored, anyway. I am a piker as a trader, but I am not a pro. I trade on a side these days while running my family business.
You see, that's exactly why trying to please people makes no sense. A friend of mine is an excellent day trader, he posts many of his trades on Twitter in near real-time, but his following is minuscule compared to the following many BS artists in this field have. Not that he cares, not that I care. I mean it just as an example that a real deal may always lose to a poser that is very good at self-promotion. Slightly off-topic to this thread, but the whole thread has been derailed a while ago, anyway.
I am truly relieved that my initial goal when I got into trading was to compound my own capital and then start a customer business, not trade a small amount for a living. If I had considered making 200k a year a solid end point, hell no trading would have never interested me. I don't see the point in that. But people come from different backgrounds and have different ambitions, so I see how that could seem like a great gig (or dream?) for some people.
A) and D) choices combined have got 37 out of 47 votes till now, which is 78%. So, 78% people believe in extremes. This is like famous arc-sin curve. Very interesting distribution. The exact number of votes till now is: A) 22 votes B) 6 votes C) 4 votes D) 15 votes
I live in rural Kansas with a dog and 2 cats and make 50K, you live in Manhattan with a wife and 2 kids and make 100K. Now who is the piker, if you got my drift???? I love when people are speaking in absolutes without adding more to the picture...