why did you choose your career as a trader ? you may have some other options for your career, why did you choose the hardest one ? becoming a profitable trader takes up to some years & is a stressful and complex job...
It was the only one that would get me where I want to be. I don't want to work for a living. I want a relatively passive income with limitless potential. I'm a walking buzzword for network marketing and pyramid schemes, but they all fall short of what I want. Not passive enough. Not limitless enough. So don't ask. Compounding interest is where it's at. If I can make 1000 into 1100, I can make 1,000,000 into 1,100,000 just as easy. Not more effort, not different effort. Not with more people, nor with more knowledge. Exactly the same. That's why I chose trading. I want to be an elite athlete, a full time dad, and a traveler. Only way to do all that, that I know of, is to make lots of money without a 9-5 or a career of any kind. I've trained athletes, served tables, sold cars, valeted, have been a doorman/bellman, and a private limousine driver, The latter paid the most as it was my own company. But even at 100K per year and a mere 50 hours per week, I still didn't have all my time. I want my time. That's why I trade. After time, I want the money to hire the best coaches, get the best nutrition, and be around people of like mind so that I can be a great athlete while raising a family. So there you go. It's not about the money. It's about having the money alongside all the time in the world. Neither one is worth much to me without the other. So, trading it is.
To be honest, I never saw it as a career, when I started, it was somewhere to go when Army sent me to Army base, each morning go to Merrill and chat with old codgers, now I am old codger, LOL. After that worked for government nights, lot's of time to learn and trade days. Guess I am hyper, but 21 years after I started, I retired cause trading I was making 50 times what gov't was paying me. Always saw trading as a stressful hobby. I always loved playing games and just see trading as a game and I have played same game seems like forever, to me it is like playing Pacman a million times, very boring most of the time. I think it is a craft like other specialities, early years showed me I didn't know how to play the game, you play long enough, you make so much fewer mistakes.