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  • #41
  • Sep 1, 2012 8:55am Sep 1, 2012 8:55am
....coupled with a subconscious desire to fail? LMAO my kinda humour

Quoting Mingary
deep seated masochistic tendencies
forget about tomorrow, just steal away into the night
  • #42
  • Sep 1, 2012 9:25am Sep 1, 2012 9:25am
Quoting Dopey
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.
Yeah, there are so many so-called bullshit. The belief in someone, in social policy, in some parties, but in the market, either you win, either you lose, no more way for you to prove yourself or to believe.
Just for me, i get hundreds dollar a month as salary, it's not much, but i have a dream, get rich and indepent from finance, although i work now in an office.
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  • #43
  • Sep 1, 2012 12:02pm Sep 1, 2012 12:02pm
Quoting spekitox
....coupled with a subconscious desire to fail? LMAO my kinda humour
While giving the conscious mind false hope endlessly. Just tweak your method, or better yet, start a whole new method for fresh false hope for even months at a time!
  • #44
  • Sep 1, 2012 2:54pm Sep 1, 2012 2:54pm
I trade to make money. (Even though I'm break-even.)
I want financial independence. I don't see having a job, working for some prick you don't like, as a safe bet. Side-step the economic problems by capitalizing on them.
I would like to be really fucking rich. I would like to open up restaurants and a soon to be legal business in the States.
I would also like to be able to contribute to the advancement of mankind, ie: space travel, medicine, technology, etc..
I also want to have children from a lot of different mothers. I need money to possibly support them.

I saw an ad on TV for scotttrade and realized that I could actually start doing that. (I'm young and have always thought this stuff to be only for people with money amounts of money.)
Play the players, not the cards.
  • #45
  • Sep 1, 2012 3:20pm Sep 1, 2012 3:20pm
Quoting Winston Reed
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.
being in mexico living on a 140 acre land there's a possibility that their wont be any internet signal for you to even trade on your laptop
KEEP IT SIMPLE PIPPING
  • #46
  • Sep 1, 2012 3:21pm Sep 1, 2012 3:21pm
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.
awesome
KEEP IT SIMPLE PIPPING
  • #47
  • Sep 1, 2012 6:21pm Sep 1, 2012 6:21pm
Quoting jvh2811
being in mexico living on a 140 acre land there's a possibility that their wont be any internet signal for you to even trade on your laptop
LOL..i was thinking the same..
  • #48
  • Sep 1, 2012 8:58pm Sep 1, 2012 8:58pm
Quoting Tyoon
Why did you start trading? How did the bug bite you?
Apart from the common reasons, it is just a nice big puzzle to play/solve.
This puzzle sometimes is fun, other times it is hair pulling.
It is this tussle that make it an interesting puzzle.

Why play on Apps when you can play Trading ?? !!
  • #49
  • Sep 4, 2012 2:23am Sep 4, 2012 2:23am
Quoting GnarlyPips
I trade to make money. (Even though I'm break-even.)
I want financial independence. I don't see having a job, working for some prick you don't like, as a safe bet. Side-step the economic problems by capitalizing on them.
I would like to be really fucking rich. I would like to open up restaurants and a soon to be legal business in the States.
I would also like to be able to contribute to the advancement of mankind, ie: space travel, medicine, technology, etc..
I also want to have children from a lot of different mothers. I need money to...
I like your response. This is why everyone does it no matter what they might tell you. It's really all about the women, toys and not having to work a f%&king desk job for someone else the rest of your life.
  • #50
  • Sep 5, 2012 3:12am Sep 5, 2012 3:12am
To state the brazenly obvious, I started trading because I wanted money and had dreams of being self employed. I also very much enjoy it as a mental exercise to keep my mind out of the dull day-to-day.
  • #51
  • Sep 5, 2012 4:21am Sep 5, 2012 4:21am
Memories start refreshing when I see the question on this topic.

I took a liking in trading when I start to work in the IT industry 10 years back supporting financial institutions like Reuters and Bloomberg, when my routine job scope are to monitor and support the software, the servers, the feeds if anything goes wrong. A routine become a passion for trading.

I don't like to gamble, but I like probability and numbers games, eg poker, and that prolong my interest in trading.
The only winner is the one who survive the longest...
  • #52
  • Sep 10, 2012 9:46am Sep 10, 2012 9:46am
Quoting Tyoon
Why did you start trading? How did the bug bite you?

Some 9 years back, after my graduation I decided to get some professional work in which I earn hand-sum amount at the month end. A friend of mine was working in Brokerage house. I saw him manipulating and working on big digits, most of the times. I asked him to teach me about Forex, so by this I came in this business. Soon i realized if I need to stay here for long then I must understand the market movement. I learned a lot and get key techniques from market and from my Boss, who was an IB. Now I proudly say that my decision was quite in my favor, I have my own standard account which I made from Forex.
  • #53
  • Sep 10, 2012 11:17am Sep 10, 2012 11:17am
Quoting @mel
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
lolzzzzzz (she said it was easy to do iit, all I had to do was clicking on a buy or sell button!!!) Just imagine how it would be if its same as this sentence ??????
  • #54
  • Sep 10, 2012 11:29am Sep 10, 2012 11:29am
I started trading in 2002, the only goal and aim I have in trading is to make money, pure and simple.

Trading is my livelihood, not a hobby.
  • #55
  • Sep 10, 2012 2:44pm Sep 10, 2012 2:44pm
Well that is a busy day, maybe one too many BJ's, but a very active day for sure.

I would be able to do about 1/2 of that schedule, mainly the twins would take a lot of my morning energy, lol.

I might spend some more time with my girl here.

I started trading because I wanted to quit the day to day job, and have weekends free to do what I want, not what the boss wants.

Also, spend some time with Skynet on the golf course.

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  • #56
  • Sep 11, 2012 1:35am Sep 11, 2012 1:35am
Good job Skynet it's about time someone told the truth
  • #57
  • Sep 11, 2012 3:03pm Sep 11, 2012 3:03pm
For a long time I had been searching for this kind of business .By which I can earn a lot of money with in a challenging situation. My dream came to an end by one of my cousins. One day in fact I had gone to his home and had seen him to do the business work.Once a time for my curiosity he compelled to tell me the secret way for earning money .He gives me all suggestions and now I am a successful trader .
  • #58
  • Sep 11, 2012 3:32pm Sep 11, 2012 3:32pm
I started trading because I've always loved games of probability.

Childhood memories of my grandfather teaching me blackjack,

Then I watched Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels whilst I was in school - I started up my own 3 card brag gambling den at age 12 lol.

Basically this went on to doing things like taking my college loan to a casino.

It wasn't gambling to me though, I approached it like a business. That was the way I was taught.

Got in to spread betting in University and thought wow... a game of probability where I can tip the odds in my favor..... AND they will let me play on margin!

Got myself in to the industry to learn all about these financial markets, sharpen my edge, and take part in the perfect blend of money making and satisfaction of winning where so many lose.
  • #59
  • Sep 11, 2012 6:21pm Sep 11, 2012 6:21pm
Main reason for me was I wanted to prove to the world that you can go from zero to hero and also be involved in something inspirational rather than being called a number by your boss and given the same wage every payday and same bottle of wine and chocolate rather than a 200% return on your account at times in trading as a bonus.
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  • #60
  • Sep 11, 2012 10:05pm Sep 11, 2012 10:05pm
i started trading in 2010 because where i live the money that you pay for job is a shit also i,m still young so if i want the job it,s hard to find forex is a job that you will be paid on your knowledge,more free time and a lot of money
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