Trying to transition from full time job to trading. Having trouble with discipline.

Discussion in 'Professional Trading' started by jinxu, Jun 30, 2016.

  1. JNL

    JNL

    Just alternate between black and red and double your bet until you win.

     
    #41     Jul 2, 2016
  2. SunTrader

    SunTrader

    I couldn't stop picking at that scab on my arm and now I might have to have it amputated.

    What should I do?
     
    #42     Jul 2, 2016
  3. newwurldmn

    newwurldmn

    get both arms amputated for symmetry.
     
    #43     Jul 2, 2016
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  4. SunTrader

    SunTrader

    There ya go.

    Dilemma solved. And no more head scratching too.
     
    #44     Jul 2, 2016
  5. ironchef

    ironchef

    Easy, like one poster said, start with a larger fortune, perhaps $560 millions.:D

    Seriously, you seemed to have a good trading methodology, be discipline and more patient and you will be good.
     
    #45     Jul 2, 2016
  6. jl1575

    jl1575


    6 years ago sometime in the summer, you tripled your capital in 2-3 weeks, and now you aim at 20% a month?
     
    #46     Jul 2, 2016
  7. So that would be 20:1 leverage giving you 1 million buying power. A million a year in trading income would be unlikely unless your putting up 200k plus.
     
    #47     Jul 2, 2016
  8. Rob Carver's website and especially his blog are awesome.
    I love this classification of traders:
    • Super Traders with both the skills and the discipline
    • Committed and useless; with the discipline but not the skill
    • Clever and Chaotic, skills but no discipline
    • Useless and Chaotic, no skills or discipline.
    When I was trading Prop, I met many of the 3rd and 4th category...at the time, I was in the 2nd category. No one at this shop was in the 1st category.

    Can anyone comment on his book 'Systematic Trading' ?
     
    Last edited: Jul 3, 2016
    #48     Jul 3, 2016
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  9. garachen

    garachen

    It's an excellent book. Worth reading. Worth implementing. Eventually I want to see how short term it can be pushed.


     
    #49     Jul 3, 2016
  10. Thanks for that.....wow, all 5 and 4 star ratings on Amazon !!
     
    #50     Jul 3, 2016