So for you $40 is not money, eh? If you can consistently make $40 a day and pyramid your profits, you will soon be able to make $1 000 a week, then $2 000 and so forth.. In trading there is no such thing as a "small" profit. Profit is profit, period.
I gave Ken some shit (in jest) because he's been trading for over 20 years. So $40 is a rounding error if you can even call it that.
What happened to all the Locals who traded size in German Government Bonds back in 2010, when that video was made You know those Prop traders at all those European 'trading arcades' where you paid $2000+ a month for trading software and a desk They seem to have gone extinct
Told the wife last night that today was a $100k setup, but only made $50k so kind of shitty. How is your trading going?
You have been around since 1999 on ET, so you have seen things. This brought back memories. I started in September 1998, and I was petrified during my first 6 months. When I took a shower, I could see my hair falling off, and I was 22 years old! I also had a very sharp, constant, pain in the back of my neck. It was stress for sure. I simply could not pull the trigger. I had become very good friends with the star trader on the desk (23 years old), routinely making $100K+ a day. He even made it to the cover of New York Magazine, and articles in Fortune/Forbes. I think my friendship with him is what kept me around. Around 6 months into it, he stood behind me, and said: I want you to lose, lose a lot, every day. Fucking lose. Instinctively, I knew what he meant: You have nothing to lose, you are a prop trader, PULL THE TRIGGER. And the rest is history. Incredible life, etc. You can't tell people to grow a pair, when I have much, much bigger balls than you, and I can fucking prove it By the way, both 2 options imply the same answer. Think about it...
Are you implying that $50K is your average profit per day? Beating the crap out of the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq, that's for sure.
I was concerned. Whenever I took a shower, I could see a fair amount of hair, falling off. I guess that was my initial reaction to stress. And the ultra sharp pain in the back of my neck. 12 months after I started trading, no more hair falling off, no more pain in the back of my neck. MAKING MONEY HEALS, HALLELUJAH!!! PS. Your buddy Dustin @Dustin is so quiet. He doesn't want to play... From the guy who tells his wife he expected $100K THE NIGHT BEFORE (why on earth would you say these things!), but only got $50K in a day, which he considers "kind of shitty". Fuck, you cannot make this shit up!!!