What's your market metaphor?

Rogue Trader · Sep 12, 2003

A trader seeing and defending patterns amongst randomness is like a child finding faces within the clouds. Both so clear, it is the evanescence of perception that sees to the permanence of deception.

mg_mg · Sep 12, 2003

I conside the market as a moving car: when market is in strong trend, it is a car in accelarating stage; when there is a divergence for the market, the car is in decelarating stage -driver pushes the brake pedal.

WDGann · Sep 12, 2003

Everything I do is metaphoric to trading.

Trading is my essence of how I live my life.

abducens · Sep 12, 2003

If the market wasn't working so hard to go up , it would go down.

indahook · Sep 12, 2003

"Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake."
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956)

and my own less eloquent one = "I don`t know anything"

waggie945 · Sep 12, 2003

Is Obviously Wrong!

daveb351 · Sep 12, 2003

It's not a metaphor, but a "Yogi Bera":

When a stock is through going up it is not ready to go down.

Phantom Trader · Sep 26, 2003

The world's biggest casino

futurecurrents · Sep 26, 2003

Quote from javaboy:

Surfing...something Ive never really done, but maybe some day....

The huge expanse of ocean does not give a shit whether your little ass is trying to stand up on a board just 6 ft by 2 ft (ok, it's a short board--this is my metaphor). Its just there. No armies arrayed against you, no emotion at all.

It doesn't care what happens to you: wipe out, long ride into the sand, something in between....And will always be there, so you will have plenty of time to learn, if you are patient enough....Gotta look inside yourself to find your own style, gotta keep practicing long hours to get good.

************************************************

To get out to the waves you must endure the crashing breakers of the learning curve.
Coughing up water you finally get into the game and wait for a good wave.
To catch the wave you better be patient and be positioned in the right spot.
Then at the right time you go for it.
No fear.
Upon the irresistible force of the sea you rise up and slide down the face of the movement.
Ride it correctly and the exhilaration is intense.
Get greedy and ride too high or too long and she'll kill you on the rocks.
The sea will not cheer your success nor bemoan your death.
The incessant sea moves on.
More...

AnonymousTrader · Sep 27, 2003

Imagine a pasture.
Quiet, birds are chirping, sun is rising.

Then hell breaks loose.

Naked guys run out into the pasture trying to sodomize each other. The harder the better.
There is one catch tho:

The longer you aim, the longer you expose yourself.

Then the closing bell rings.