If you ever made it as a trader...

This is a thread for all the dreamers out there...

Let's say you actually made it BIG as a trader, I'm talking 7+ figures a year..What would you do with your life beyond trading?

Me?

I would make a hedge fund charity, where donations go towards the fund and the profits from that capital are put DIRECTLY into research which benefits the people, not just the pharmaceutical companies... Robin hood sh*t

I would start a record company or two and put reality TV to shame. I'd make reality MUSIC, and create say two different classes of musicians, your metro-sexual, new age, pretty boy, privileged types + your fuct up, tattooed up, rough, rude, bogun ghetto types and stage real life dramas between the two groups. Dramas which make national news headlines but the end result would be the promotion of right and wrong to the kids. To inspire good behavior. I guess in this drama the good guy will always win.

I would set up free music studios in all major cities of the world, where unknown artists can come in and record their music professionally and of course stream line this music live on radio or TV.

I would probably open some kind of bar or club

I would create a chain of unskilled labor businesses on a massive scale, where I can basically pull people straight out of the dole que and give them a hassle free income without them having to go through all the usual sh*t. Just for people who want to earn a modest wage.

For myself I would have my own room, decked out with every type of musical instrument I want; drums, guitars, synthesizers, what have you, so I can go and jam out any time I want.

Just a few ideas, I have many... It's good to dream...
What would you do? How would your life change?

this song seems the most fitting

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You're quite antruistic and modest.

I'd travel the world for a few years and make sure I visit as many places as possible during my lifetime. Not just the common locations, but also "strange" places. Travel's the #1 for me and what makes life fulfilled IMO!

Then the usual stuff - villa at the beach, expensive cars/clothes/wine and a hot chick.

First of all: my financial priority is to have a mortgage free house with 1 bedroom for each family member - so I bedroom for my son, one for me and wife's bedroom and one for my office/entertain room with gaming computer etc. and it would made me happy - I could live of working as full time employee

beyond that? If I had more money I would secure my parent's and parents in law future by giving them enough money so they could live well till end of their days. also would buy flats/houses for my and my wife's brothers and sisters.

beyond that? (I guess it's stage 3) - I would buy few properties to rent and live of forex trading and other investments, and would retire in few years. I would spend time going to gym, would spend it with my kid, with my wife, traveling, enjoying life.
The most important is health - if you're not healthy no money will satisfy you.

What I wouldn't do? I wouldn't buy expensive celebrity style posh house (who needs 10 bedrooms for 2-4 people?), I wouldn't drive expensive half a million cars as I don;t need it to be happy and some toyota yaris would be enough for me to drive in town and some audi a4 would be good enough for outside the town trips . What would I do with excess of money? probably charity as after you die you won't take the money with you.
as about my children - it is obvious they would get the cash after my death, but before that I would ask them to leave family home for few years and to live on their own. to work, to see how difficult it is for casual people to live, it would teach them respect for money and respect for people as well. after few years of school like that they would know how not to loose all the money they got after me. If you take a look at rich people, it needs only 2-3 generations to loose family's wealth and that is because people who never really worked don't know how to manage their money, they think that all comes easy. then because of their stupidity they loose all the wealth.

It would be really funny to read the comments of someone who "has made it as a trader".

Are you out there?

No. No one?

well, ok then.

I think all these are achievable in time with discipline plan execution:

1. I like the idea of having a charity hedge fund & use its profit for doing good for usual people.
2. I will travel all over the world and see beautiful sights, beaches, man made historical places,...
3. I will buy a private island !
4. ...

Some nice places...

First of all: my financial priority is to support my family

if i get more money
I will do charity work

if i get more money and more and more
we do not need to be a hypocrite
Sure we all want this,, ha,, ha,,

I have spent years of my life working onboard ships so I would probably skip the cruise

or you want to go there

Travel around the world, staying in different cities for a few weeks at a time maybe more maybe less. Travelling the world and financing it through trading would be amazing. Making enough for family as well would be nice.

build a death star in space and execute One World Government protocols on earth. if everyone revolts, I switch off the Sun. thats all.

"7+ figures a year" isn't very specific. how much money do you think you'd need to carry out your altruistic goals? Would $12,463,815 be enough? In that case you need to fiercely protect and build your capital for the first $12,463,814. Then when that last dollar comes in you can suddenly jeckyll and hyde yourself into robin hood mode and give it away. Really. People have some fucked up ideas about wealth protection, creation and management - that is why their dreams will never be more than that. IMO the biggest difference between rich people and poor people is that poor people think there is a difference. Rich people know there is no line to cross, no fence to jump, nothing to tell you you've 'made it '- we are all walking the same road.

ROFL... See YOU belong here hahaha awesome...

Nice mate

hmm I would....

write a book
give talks
try to get interviewed on CNBC Fox news Bloomberg etc...basically let the world know how great a trader I am....

And also start a broker and banking business, enough of trying to beat the market, I want to be the market.

Call up world vision and tell them I will be donating a million happy meals.

Randomactsofkindness

no worries ;-)

I only miss good food. then most of the days I would watch the sun go down and reminisce about my hard years and have a smile that now I can break bread with the gods.

every single day I wake up I would say finally I'm saved.

If you want to play Robin Hood there is shorter path (not necessarily an easier path)... simply go after the banks. Everything else will fall into place after that. Travel will have to come first. You can't fix the world if you don't know it. Travel to see how people survive. Don't be a tourist. If you wan't to fix the world, you need to love the world first and you can not love what you don't know. I once read a quote that said "ignorance is fixed reading, prejudice and racism is fixed traveling". Love this type of debate.. keep it coming..