Success in life and in Trading

Old men will be telling the story to their grandchildren one day.

 

A great champion won three Olympic long distance medals within a few days in searing heat. Hell that's nothing, I heard of a guy who walked to the mailbox one day.

 

It's all about the delivery. The process,

Me reading your ET comment, Right now,....could literally.....be the next Oscar award trophy winner.
Versus a story about, just, another Olympic athlete accomplishing impossible dreams by training hard. Ehh, heard that before many times, already,

 

Not nearly as many times as stories of losers who simply dream but fail to act.

 

I grabbed a bottle of vicks vapor rub and had the epiphany that I could trade vix. And I have been successfully for 2 years now .

 

Coincidence?....I think not.

 

Come on, you know why he's equivocating a world class athlete with a guy who checks the mailbox.

If you need a hint, look at the picture of the athlete.

 

Hello zdreg,

I am willing to work until I die to make $100 everyday trading the ES for the rest of my life.

I seriously have no other trading goals.

Thank you.

 

The real kicker for me was when I realized you could derive macroscopic volatility from the microstructure of Hawkes processes , when doing the calculus the limits converge surely and leads to the mean reversion effects, and then it all clicked

 

That's DEEP and moving. The Pursuit of Happyness 2.
A beautiful, touching, story...of a man and his pursuit to make the market his own, personal, ATM machine,