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Postby pablo101 » Fri Nov 05, 2010 4:19 am

newark18 wrote:Hot Woman: What do you Do?

ES - Sell Shoes

Hot Woman: Uhh, ok, how much do you make from that?

ES - $10million/year

Hot Woman: That's impossible

ES - Exactly...

Hot Woman - I'm getting bored here. Want to go back to my place?

ES - Only if we play Pearl Harbor...

Hot Woman - That doesn't sound like fun. All that happened was that Japan blew the s**t out of the US.

ES - Exactly...

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Postby Jalarupa » Fri Nov 05, 2010 6:28 am

trueblueTEX wrote:Pirate :)

+1 :D

I even have my Facebook language settings to English (Pirate) :lol:

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Postby forexjake80 » Fri Nov 05, 2010 9:29 am

Seriously folks... what do you tell them? I have been in some odd situations, thats for sure...

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Postby Jalarupa » Fri Nov 05, 2010 9:32 am

Tell them you are an economist... if you wanna sound cleaver

Tell them you are a financial manager... if you wanna sound important

Tell them you are a mutha f@$#n' hustla... if you wanna sound badass ;-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ysKh76vuzQ

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Postby es/pip » Fri Nov 05, 2010 1:44 pm

newark18 wrote:Hot Woman: What do you Do?

ES - Sell Shoes

Hot Woman: Uhh, ok, how much do you make from that?

ES - $10million/year

Hot Woman: That's impossible

ES - Exactly...

Hot Woman - I'm getting bored here. Want to go back to my place?

ES - Only if we play Pearl Harbor...

Hot Woman - That doesn't sound like fun. All that happened was that Japan blew the s**t out of the US.

ES - Exactly...

:)


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Postby es/pip » Fri Nov 05, 2010 1:50 pm

forexjake80 wrote:Seriously folks... what do you tell them? I have been in some odd situations, thats for sure...



i learned a long time ago that people just wont understand it, not to mention trying to explain short selling to them, it is just easier to make something up.

what do you do for a living?

i am a trader

whats that? trade what?

i trade the markets

you can make a living at that?

yep

what if they go down, how do you make money then ??

you go short

what is that?

its when you sell to the market and buy back cheaper

how can you sell something you do not own ??


i can either have that conversation


or just make some stupid s**t up

What do you do for a living?

import export ?

with what

i import truck loads of cash, and i export pain and suffering 8)

lol

i haven't used that one, but i may add it to the arsenal



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Postby es/pip » Fri Nov 05, 2010 1:56 pm

Jalarupa wrote:Tell them you are an economist... if you wanna sound cleaver

Tell them you are a financial manager... if you wanna sound important

Tell them you are a mutha f@$#n' hustla... if you wanna sound badass ;-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ysKh76vuzQ


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Postby forexjake80 » Fri Nov 05, 2010 3:22 pm

why is it they ALWAYS ask that "can you make a living with that" question???
It's time to kick ass and chew bubble gum. And I'm all out of gum.

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Postby adaseb » Fri Nov 05, 2010 5:05 pm

I don't tell people either because they will think that since I made money doing it, so will they and they want me to teach them.

And I hate teaching people anything.

You don't know how many people are out there with unrealistic expectations who want to make $200 a day (typically what their job pays) with a $5000 account and no experience what so ever.

One guy said he will probably start trading AAPL (Apple stock) fulltime because he looked at the charts and everyday it has dips, and he will just buy at the dips. But I don't know what crystal ball he has laying around in his closet that will tell him which dips will be the swing lows.

When I got started in trading it was all fun and games. It was fun backtesting and demo trading and s**t. But now trading full time is a real bitch and sometimes really stressful. Sure you can make thousands a day but you really have to work for it. And I mean REALLY work for it. You have a very small margin for error. And the market is so dynamic with time that what works today might not work in the future.

I hate it with a passion when some noobs ask "How much can I make trading" or "how much do you make trading" or "what is the win rate with this method"

I really think that more people would succeed in trading if they just stopped browsing forums looking for indicators that plot an up arrow or down error when to enter/exit trades. Most people spend way too much time browsing forums and backtesting or demo trading when in fact they should be watching the markets live. If they just watched the live market for a couple weeks, I guarantee that they would find a few ways to make profit from the market. Backtesting and Demo trading is like masturbation, you will learn nothing from it.

But a lot of people think that watching the market live is a waste of time because looking at charts in hindsight is no different. What they don't understand is that its a waste of time trying to look for patterns however if they looked at a chart and learned market dynamics they would be much ahead of the herd.

For example, say the Euro breaks upward, after a 15 pip pullback it consolidates, and then drops another 15 pips, then consolidates some more and start going up, stalls, and goes back down and drops another 10 pips, causing a massive downward spike and then rallies all the way up 45 pips and breaks to a new high. If you stared at these types of moves in real time you would know exactly where the amateurs and where the pros enter and how you could profit from it. You would know exactly where noobs put the stops and you could runs the stops with the pros, and then after 2 attempts when most amateurs give up buying the dips, you'd have a good risk/reward entry. You don't learn stuff like this by demo trading or backtesting.

So enough ranting, and time to get some sleep. Goodnight everybody.

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Postby ZEN » Fri Nov 05, 2010 5:06 pm

What do you do for a living?

import export ?

with what

i import truck loads of cash, and i export pain and suffering

lol

i haven't used that one, but i may add it to the arsenal



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