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is trading good for your health?

  • #21
  • Jun 24, 2007 3:24pm Jun 24, 2007 3:24pm
Quoting blueruby
.... wanted to give me happy pills, which I repeatedly refused.
my friend, you know the formula, right? .....happy pill + trading = happy trading.
  • #22
  • Jun 25, 2007 4:15am Jun 25, 2007 4:15am
Quoting Neznaika
my friend, you know the formula, right? .....happy pill + trading = happy trading.
Well, the pills don't address the cause of the problem. The reason a person feels bad is not due to lack of prozac. It is due to some external influence, often due to choices on their part. The pills supposedly make you feel good regardless.

Therefore, you could take pills and feel happy even though your trading is horrible.

I'd rather feel some pain when I make a mistake. Losing a trade shouldn't hurt; when you break a rule, or should have known better, and then lose, that is supposed to sting a little.
  • #23
  • Jun 25, 2007 4:19am Jun 25, 2007 4:19am
Also, when trading for a living, a person can sleep when tired, eat when hungry, exercise often, and has afternoons off.

My health is better now than it's been for many many years.

When I become consistently profitable, I expect to have almost no stress in life.

I'll have to come up with some new problems. Some good ones. Like, vette or mustang, cruise or RV trip, ocean or mountains....
  • #24
  • Edited 10:06pm Jun 25, 2007 7:37pm | Edited 10:06pm
Quoting blueruby
......... The reason a person feels bad is not due to lack of prozac..
Ahhhhh... prozac.... you know, with prozac you can trade without stoplosses... just make sure that bottle is full.


(just kiddin, man)
  • #25
  • Jun 26, 2007 6:51am Jun 26, 2007 6:51am
Quoting Neznaika
Ahhhhh... prozac.... you know, with prozac you can trade without stoplosses... just make sure that bottle is full.


(just kiddin, man)
Hey, it just might work. I'm willing to try ALMOST anything....

Trade's 100 pips in the red, take another pill and stay positive, tell yourself it will all work out, and if not, it really doesn't matter anyway!
  • #26
  • Jul 11, 2007 3:53am Jul 11, 2007 3:53am
I am sensitive. I hear my intuition. But then i loose my money i feel myself broken.
  • #27
  • Jul 12, 2007 3:11am Jul 12, 2007 3:11am
it is bad for my health
but it is god for my soul......( at least it makes me less narsis)
  • #28
  • Jul 12, 2007 7:52am Jul 12, 2007 7:52am
Quoting Gwan
it is bad for my health
but it is god for my soul......( at least it makes me less narsis)
if you are loosing, i think. But if you are wining?
  • #29
  • Jul 16, 2007 1:51am Jul 16, 2007 1:51am
Quote
if you are loosing, i think. But if you are wining?

naah, either way can be good and bad in the same time,
  • #30
  • Jul 16, 2007 4:26am Jul 16, 2007 4:26am
Quoting Gwan
naah, either way can be good and bad in the same time,
yees, i agree with you
  • #31
  • Jul 16, 2007 9:36am Jul 16, 2007 9:36am
I like trading. It's exciting and full of opportunities. Not that I don't take it seriously.
I am hungry for pips
  • #32
  • Jul 16, 2007 6:02pm Jul 16, 2007 6:02pm
Yes, I think it's great for your health.

You get lot's of physical exercise throwing your monitor. You get an aerobic workout screaming at the Japanese Bank that has just killed you.

I suppose if I wanted a healthy lifestyle while getting rich, I would have become a professional football player.

And yes, I voted NO.

However, I think it's only as unhealthy as you let it be.
  • #33
  • Nov 13, 2009 3:25am Nov 13, 2009 3:25am
Trading involves uncertainties. The more certain the people are the more healthy they are. The best way to stay healthy in trading is to stay above uncertainties.
  • #34
  • Nov 13, 2009 3:49am Nov 13, 2009 3:49am
Any thing in moderation is ok......but then any addiction is also not good......watch out
luv to loose.....
  • #35
  • Nov 13, 2009 3:54am Nov 13, 2009 3:54am
If I lived in a better place to trade it would be better. West coast USA is the worst place to trade from. FO to NY open 11PM to 5AM. That's not right. That really cuts into my beauty rest.

Otherwise, no problems. If you have been self-employed for some time, as I have, then you are comfortable with the ever-present risk of financial ruin. No stress.
"If The Fool persists in his Folly he will become wise." - William Blake
  • #36
  • Edited 7:27am Dec 20, 2009 7:23am | Edited 7:27am
Trading has definitely made me healthier in the long run. I certainly am not the same person I was 3 years back. Even though I learned the hard way (lost over $40k), in a nutshell, I'd say it has not only made me stronger but has also made me very relaxed in life. And being relaxed is one of the things being taught even in yoga as very very good for the health. Trading has taught me so many virtues including patience, discipline, self-control, humility, peace, love, e.t.c which are all fruits of the good spirit. Some people age up to 40-50 before they can learn and really inculcate these virtues in their systems. I'm just 25 & can't think of any other thing that would have given me all the experience I have now at this age about life. No regrets, no hypertension but I wake up everyday knowing that my great future has just begun. This is healthy. Therefore to say trading is unhealthy would be like saying life is unhealthy. (Or is it?) For me, life is what you make of it. Think about it.
  • #37
  • Dec 20, 2009 7:26am Dec 20, 2009 7:26am
Quoting constin
Trading involves uncertainties. The more certain the people are the more healthy they are. The best way to stay healthy in trading is to stay above uncertainties.
you are a necrophiliac. this thread is dead since 2 years.
  • #38
  • Dec 20, 2009 8:45am Dec 20, 2009 8:45am
Quoting Dr.Geppynius
you are a necrophiliac. this thread is dead since 2 years.
Thanks for the complements.
  • #39
  • Dec 20, 2009 8:54am Dec 20, 2009 8:54am
Quoting constin
Thanks for the complements.
i forgot to post a smiley after that sentence

  • #40
  • Dec 20, 2009 9:00am Dec 20, 2009 9:00am
Quoting Dr.Geppynius
i forgot to post a smiley after that sentence

No problem Dr.

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