Sorry BRO you might tell your friends that you are a "trader" but life's facts are..... 100 % Commission work is not a - paid job. Prop trader is not a real "trader" as much as *most* MLM is not a real business. let me spell it for you...if you get benefits (I have a very decent dental and medical co pay with company matching 401 K) and PAY IT IS A JOB. Of course it is a little too complicated to some ET readers.....
I'm going to be 33 and thought i entered trading business little bit late, It's because i have TONS of trading related stuff in front of me to master Time is really critical, but where is the energy Lord help us
Look I do not know the market today. I almost went back with Bright in SF but they just switched and I needed a blimey series 7 that I HAD but it was too old. So I will not suffer thru this sh*t again just to trade in an office mostly my risk money fronted. I traded in NYC with ETC in 92 (now schoenfeld) and I personally traded next to Bob Kanter when he actually traded and gave us big print action on some NYSE prints. I never said to my friends that I work as a trader. Fuck, I had to pay $1500/month for my desk. What kind of a job where I have to pay to be there? Well maybe new corporate america is going there but I am not going along. Having said it, Bright is likely the only company I would touch today. (OP hear this?)
So I just opened a donut shop, and have to pay my own insurance, and for all the ingredients to make donuts, and I still can't say I'm a donut maker. I guess only if I work at a Dunkin Donuts, correct? With the benefits and all..... What gives bro?
Do you have a JOB or a Business? *hint* (I cannot believe this 8th grade stuff? Fuck man, there is a franchise to clean fucking office buildings where you pay 10k and they send you sure gigs and you clean trash? Do yoo have a business or bought yourself a job? I am a full time employee of a casino where I make 200-500 cash per nights while I am still an employee of the Injuns....dig BRO?
Wow, what an ignorant post! If I wanted to follow the path of every other avg joe in this country, I guess I'd think just like you.
Dream on. I guess in your world you should pay to go to work and be happy? You brainwashed crazy MOFO. Just made it to my ignore list.
I dont pay anyone to go to work. I make money in the markets daily (check the trader p&L thread if you'd like). Traders are entrepenuers who DO NOT think like the avg person. You obviously arent cut out for it so it's a good thing you have a steady paycheck. My only problem with you is that you grouped everyone into one category and claimed "if you dont have this, then you dont have a real job". And thats just plain ignorant. BTW, your ignore list must be pretty long, if this is how you react to anyone who doesnt share your viewpoint.