Although it is for me very difficult to always understand women, I figured that out much faster then how the trading markets work. I have a very active brain, so trading and other “financial” math keeps me mentally on my toes as I have no other job anymore. I did not like the emotional side of trading however, especially as I am a discretionary trader. Fully automated would have been emotionally far easier.
Trading was the most challenging for two reasons. I stumbled along rather than aggressively systematizing the clues that I had turned up, and second I wanted to reach a perfect system, which I define as one which will hit liquidity ceilings while day trading ES. Then there is the emotional side of trading, which of course is related to how accurate your method is. Women were confusing at the beginning only because their behavior contradicted the traditional description that my Baptist upbringing insisted was true. Clarity came only after much experience. Nowadays young men have it easy. They can read evolutionary psychology or Chateau Heartiste to learn what to expect and how best to handle women whatever the goal of that handling be. But getting a PhD and having an academic career were a piece of cake compared to trading.
How does someone procure a sentiment like that regarding trading? What did that person read and or watch to give them that mindset? Lol... that must’ve been a wild conversation.
As far as i understood, nothing, that`s the kicker. i admit that in the end, it triggered emotions in me, so i cut it off, as politely as i could. Guy went to smoke, i stayed to continue on making my lunch, thinking, what the hell was that all about. It was a good lesson.
"Is Trading the most intellectually stimulating/challenging thing you have ever done? What is #1?" Women most challenging. Having Asperger's though I find everyone most challenging/confusing. Trading use to be, you do anything 40 years plus becomes much less so. I understand the "whys" of other human emotions, but I lack most of them and aging helps forget what few I have/had. Lost having a conscience and embarrassment in my 20s or maybe never had it, people have expectations, and just to "fit" in I have studied people's reactions to life, it is easier to fit in if one becomes like Fred Flintstone(I believe 99% of world are Fred Flintstone). I find it fascinating that so many people believe there is no randomness in trading, price is random, we as humans need structure in thinking so we assign rules so we can think we have solutions based on testing. Our eyes can lie to us and will come up with patterns based on the past. Ever drive and approaching big city, you start looking at tall buildings and seeing differences in heights then your mind in forming trendlines by angles of building tops or you are seeing building divergences....they are just buildings or mountain tops or trees... I do it all the time, LOL....
No. I got lucky trading in this bull market. Please don't confuse brains/skills with the bull market.
That guy is from 19th century, time-travelling to the present. Wait until he goes back to the 19th century to tell his friends what he saw now. LOL
lol , given the fact that, our, conversation, took place in Netherlands, he might even be from early middle 17'th