what got you into trading ??

I worked at a place where most of the guys I worked with were into the market. I kinda got the fever.

One day Sybase got nailed on news. I had worked with the software, knew it was in wide use and felt it was worth a buy. So I ran down to the local Schwab office, opened an account and spent $130 on a trade. Within a few weeks, it retraced about 50% and I covered, taking a nice profit (even with that commis.).

I was hooked.

Then a year later, I met a guy while skiing who had just started as a daytrader. He said he was 37. I thought all traders started in their 20's and were burnt-out by their 30's. So, thinking "Hey! I'm younger than that!" (but not much) I got some contact info and followed through on it.

About 18 mos. after that, I had a grubstake and started trading fulltime.

 

You mean there are people who don't trade?

 

To get rich.

My first go around was during the back end of the .com era. Didn't have a clue what I was doing, and eventually just went to a buy and hold strategy with subpar results. Got disillusioned and quit 2 years later.


Came back once my friend showed me technical analysis and the MACD. Granted, now I realize that everything looks so great in hindsight.

 

I received some shares when I sold my company. I am in Europe and I did not know about exchanges and trading anything.

After some time I was thinking what to do next and also I was requested by my wife to do something to earn more money .


I did not want to repeat problems with employees, customers, products, sales, rental of offices etc .... And so I remembered I have some shares, and that money do money, so I tried to trade shares a year ago. After naive trading last year lost some money. Then I found courses and training and spend about 6 month by training and papertrading.

Now I am in real trading for about 2 months. Not too good but also not too bad, so I am looking forward to the future ....

 

my job that's what I do for a living ... analysis ...

 

No , the strong desire to find it out how the financial markets work, what are the rules that let you lose all you've got in a day - that got me to study the markets. At that time it wasn't understandable by me.

Then, when I figured it out I also found that you could win some money there (This is why I trade)

Vasilly