You Know You've Got It Bad When:

You get an inheritance and you convert that into your new position size.

Lohad

On Valentines day, you leave your wife at the dinner table with the rose, teddy bear and card unopened, to check on a trade.

You get tags like this for your car, even though you know 99% of the world won't know what it means.
( my actual tags, I settled for this cause GBP JPY was already taken ).

you check the prices on your mobile every 15 minutes when you're away from the PC

When you don't sleep for 30 hours and still feel energized because your trade going your way

When your scanning Forex Factory for good humor.

you stay up at night on bed with your laptop in the dark while your wife/partner is asleep

When I wake up at 1:30am to start my day, I don't turn on the lights, so as not to disturb my wife. I use the illumination from my blackberry to find my way around.

When you plan on dining out, you never make reservations, you want to keep your options open till the last minute.

...you pay in advance and ask for your meal to be served in a To-Go box in case you get an alert and have to leave in a hurry.

Hey man! It does!! All my friends are just laughing becuase they are jealous! That's what momma said.

When each day turning on the computer gives you mixed emotions of Christmas morning vs the 1st day of school.

......you take a long when Bemac declares in one of his “scottish coded” messages that he’s waiting for a short bus in the next x hours.

... when terms like TP, SL, RR, EA and MM mean something to you.

... you think you may actually have an idea what it was Bemac said.

when your friends ask you how things are going...

...you tell them with great enthusiasm that you shorted Geppy at the 4h UTL tap with a Target of the LTL hoping for a PB to form on the daily and then when it hit your TP, you took off half and set your SL to BE+5 to satisfy MM, waiting for the 50% fibo bounce to resume so you could look for the FE's to get hit, and isn't that just AWESOME DUDE...!!!

Since the creativity of this thread is quickly dying... I will leave a post.

When out with your buddy he asks "How much money you have with you?" and you respond with "I have 25 USD's." :nerd:

... When you read a thread titled "You Know You've Got It Bad When"

You start applying risk / reward ratios to simple everyday things, like putting the dog outside.

You open your Internet Explorer “Favorites” list, and the first 20 are trading related.

You notice yourself mentally dividing your day into 3 separate sessions.

Your eyes always catch the “Head & Shoulders” shampoo first.

You start to understand what they’re saying on CNBC.

12) Your 6-year-old pleads with you to take him to MacD's, and you ask him what the parameters are.

11) A social worker is describing a patient who has RSI, and you interrupt to ask her if she's read Wilder's book. Then there's another patient with a history of volatility....

10) An MA is no longer a university degree.

9) Trapped in traffic at a roundabout, you find yourself waiting for a "breakout".

8) You're constantly losing at tic-tac-toe because you keep employing a P&F strategy.

7) A party addict is describing his LSD trips, and you ask whether his most recent high took out the previous one.

6) You describe an uneventful Friday at the office as an "inside day".

5) The best that lingerie advertisements can do is start you thinking about double tops.

4) While viewing the night sky with your hot date, you find yourself mentally constructing trendlines through the stars.

3) Your wife tells you she has PMT, but you can't remember what indicator that is.

2) You start thinking about your marriage in terms of risk-reward.

........ and finally ........

1) While engaged in, um, nocturnal recreation, you find yourself waiting for an entry signal.