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  • #1
  • First Post: May 18, 2012 12:46pm May 18, 2012 12:46pm
Why did you start trading? How did the bug bite you?
  • #2
  • May 20, 2012 9:12am May 20, 2012 9:12am
Quoting Tyoon
Why did you start trading? How did the bug bite you?
I started trading in 2008. Why? Well, because one of my relatives (who was an IB) introduced me too it. She said she found a "new" way for making money, she talked about big numbers, lol, she said it was easy to do iit, all I had to do was clicking on a buy or sell button!!!!

It sound like music into my ears so I decided to open an acoount!
Well I guess, what the end of the story is? lol

I was so naive! But I am very glad, I didn't gave up!

How about u Tyoon?
Mel
  • #3
  • May 20, 2012 10:30am May 20, 2012 10:30am
Quoting @mel
How about u Tyoon?
There are many reasons, primarily I want to trade for the lifestyle that trading will be able to provide for me and the capital to help realize my ambitions.

I have always worked better and harder when I am working for myself. In trading I am purely working for myself and the more effort and time I put in, the more money I get out (ideally ).

So in a few words; lifestyle and financial independence.

Of course, the idea of becoming a millionaire is never an impossible one when you are the one in charge.
  • #4
  • May 20, 2012 11:54pm May 20, 2012 11:54pm
I am 50 years old and nearing retirement. I have bought 140 acres in the New Mexico mountains and soon will be building my home and riding my horses on my land. I would like to be able to sit on my porch overlooking the valley below with my laptop on my lap making trades confidently with no worries for outlasting my retirement savings. I don't care about getting rich, just maintaining a comfortable lifestyle with my wife and me.
  • #5
  • May 21, 2012 12:51am May 21, 2012 12:51am
just because of 1 simple reason.i wanna be rich....
  • #6
  • May 21, 2012 1:50am May 21, 2012 1:50am
i knew right from highschool(around 6 years ago) that trading is what i wanted to do. Discovered forex in 2007. Want to trade for a living because i HATE having an office job, where your pay only increases slightly/year (although i am paid very well atm). but the thought of working for someone else .. i want to work for myself, be my own boss
Twitter: @forexpokerpro
  • #7
  • May 21, 2012 2:32am May 21, 2012 2:32am
To make a shit ton of money and live the life of an international playboy with cars, jets, yachts, and bed the hottest chicks on the planet.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better. ~ Jim Rohn
  • #8
  • May 21, 2012 2:45am May 21, 2012 2:45am
Quoting SEDI
just because of 1 simple reason.i wanna be rich....
Good luck with that.

Why did I start trading? Because, like everyone else, I thought it was going to be an easier way of making money. Then reality hit.
Nothing worth having is easy.
  • #9
  • May 21, 2012 3:34am May 21, 2012 3:34am
Quoting LasVahGoose
To make a shit ton of money and live the life of an international playboy with cars, jets, yachts, and bed the hottest chicks on the planet.
seems legit
Twitter: @forexpokerpro
  • #10
  • May 21, 2012 3:37am May 21, 2012 3:37am
Quoting LasVahGoose
To make a shit ton of money and live the life of an international playboy with cars, jets, yachts, and bed the hottest chicks on the planet.
Seems like an advert for a forex system seller...LOL
It never gets easier, you just get better
  • #11
  • May 21, 2012 4:14am May 21, 2012 4:14am
Quoting LasVahGoose
To make a shit ton of money and live the life of an international playboy with cars, jets, yachts, and bed the hottest chicks on the planet.


I'm on that path man. I've already achieved one of those ambitions.

It's due a service soon, come to think of it...
  • #12
  • May 21, 2012 4:38am May 21, 2012 4:38am
Quoting LasVahGoose
To make a shit ton of money and live the life of an international playboy with cars, jets, yachts, and bed the hottest chicks on the planet.
oh yes,the fast woman,faster cars and a slow boat bobbing about in the water.
had a few of the fast woman but they seem to halt me moving onto the second and third.time to get rid of the first !

i started this journey late 2006,and its been a long bloody road,but the benifits are certainly worth the time sweat and mental torture one indures to reach the rewards........
  • #13
  • May 21, 2012 5:27am May 21, 2012 5:27am
hi all , mine was different , all the things you guys said is true and i like to have them too , but mine was two major desires : 1- freedom 2- making a difference and leaving a legend behind . . .

( some might say : good luck with that . )
  • #14
  • May 21, 2012 5:49am May 21, 2012 5:49am
Quoting Patience
Good luck with that.

Why did I start trading? Because, like everyone else, I thought it was going to be an easier way of making money. Then reality hit.
yeah.its just an easy reason.thats all.
but tp make a penny out of trading is like h ell
  • #15
  • May 21, 2012 6:00am May 21, 2012 6:00am
I think this may apply to most also.. trading is very challenging and can be competitive. There are no rules to how to trade and there is no cap on how much you can earn.

That's something else I love about trading.
  • #16
  • May 21, 2012 6:49am May 21, 2012 6:49am
Quoting LasVahGoose
To make a shit ton of money and live the life of an international playboy with cars, jets, yachts, and bed the hottest chicks on the planet.
Hear him, hear him!
There are not many other reason why people trade.
Hit the streak, don't push the rabbit
  • #17
  • May 21, 2012 7:44am May 21, 2012 7:44am
Quoting swingtraderf
Hear him, hear him!
There are not many other reason why people trade.
Hit the streak, don't push the rabbit
quite jealous with his dream.beds with planet hottest chicks.lol
  • #18
  • May 22, 2012 2:21am May 22, 2012 2:21am
There is another very good reason to trade. For you younger folks it's not as important mainly because you're not fully aware of it. The fact of the world is that there is so much bullshit everywhere you look. In all fields and professions, in all cultures and societies, the human race excels in creating, perpetuating, and believing in bullshit.

In trading, there is no bullshit. You either make money or you don't. End of fucking story.
  • #19
  • May 22, 2012 2:22am May 22, 2012 2:22am
Quoting Tyoon
Why did you start trading? How did the bug bite you?
To make money, thats the bottom line. If anyone tells you they trade FX for any other reason, they're full of it.

Plus I got laid off so instead of spending 12 months trying to find a new job, I thought I'd just give this a go full time, as I was doing it part time around a fulltime job for about 9 months.
  • #20
  • May 22, 2012 2:51am May 22, 2012 2:51am
Simple answer to not getting myself greedy, to make enough money to cover my family's living costs.
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