Getting Freaky With Futures

Happen to find this thread. My first subscription on ff. Thanks MF for doing this.

Futures was never a source of income for me. It was a new endeavor. I have no plans on returning to the "workforce". If you have a job, you are a slave to the system designed to keep you from reaching your full potential. A job is where you go and they pay you just enough to keep you and you work just hard enough to not get fired. Job is a three letter acronym for Just Over Broke. We work a job simply because we are told that is what we should do. It is the "safe" thing to do. If you do not have a WRITTEN exit plan for your job, you are telling yourself a lie. You will NEVER leave unless you have a plan and work that plan DAILY. Even on the weekends. If you have a plan B, then in your mind you believe that plan A will fail. You will NEVER succeed at plan A if you have a plan B. It's really that simple.

My health issues are NOT a result of my trading. They are a direct result of being very tall and not skinny. Couple that with heavy powerlifting years ago and you have the perfect storm for degenerating discs. I still have tingling in my pinky fingers that may never go away. Life's a bi**h. Suck it up and move on.

Now, what would I do different??

1. Stop hanging out on forums. They are a complete waste of time. If 90%+ are losing, then most likely you are learning from losers. It is a self perpetuating machine. I believe the percentages are even higher on the forums since most are coming to learn something.
2. Trust the system that I developed. It works and works consistently.
3. Now that there are micro futures, the size of the account is no longer an excuse for not trying. If you are smart and hard working you can take $500 and turn it into a fortune. Problem is people don't want to start out with just 1 micro contract. They want multiple full contracts which is the beginning of their demise.
4. Trust NO ONE but yourself.

Honestly, I could give a flying f**k about anyone online. I don't know you or anyone else online beyond some dumb username created to give some clever meaning to an otherwise mundane life. We live in an era of "social media" which is the downfall of our society. It's where a bunch of people who don't care about another bunch of people get together and "like" each others posts in an attempt to create some semblance of a meaningful existence. What they get instead is a hollow existence where their mood or outlook on life is dependent on how many likes their last post received.

If you honestly think that by me telling my story it will help you avoid the pitfalls of trading you are once again lying to yourself. To learn to be a trader REQUIRES you to do stupid things and learn from those stupid things. Telling you or anyone to not do x, y or z is like trying to teach someone how to write without a pencil or paper. There is no learning without doing.

"Tangible legacy" ROFLMAO!!!!

MF, regarding disc and tingling finger; try doing yoga; at least once a week. you will get better. also loose some weight by swimming or walking.