‘Analysis-Paralysis’ - I like it - where did you learn that???
Listen here ‘Just Joan’ - the market has fed me such a dose of PATIENCE in the last three weeks I could vomit!!!
OK - well - here’s one of those ‘bare all’ posts again:
I’ll tell you WHY this is getting on my ‘t*ts’ so badly.
First of all - after all the work that’s been put in here (not just by me but by every single person that has contributed their ideas and thoughts) - you know - you get to a point where you start thinking ‘Right - this is it - now I’ve (we’ve) got it!’ - then - I (we) follow the ‘rules’ (OK - my present EUR/CHF trade excluded) - and I’m sitting here now (I’ll leave the ‘we’ out of this for now) and I have not made a cent in the last three weeks (well almost not - I’ve made a bit on the Indices but it nowhere NEAR what I need to live on). And this is AFTER coming from being THE most ‘impatient’ and ‘unmethodical’ and ‘proverbial-know-it-all’ trader ‘on the block’. I mean - take a look at my first posts (even some of my earlier ‘new trader’ posts). I believe that I’ve come a long way since then - as far as ‘patience’ and ‘restraint’ and ‘disclipine’ goes - and yet - again - here I sit not having made anything this month.
Then of course - to make matters worse - there was my ‘windfall’ a couple of weeks ago (and yes - I’ve now reconciled myself to the fact that it was a ‘windfall’ and nothing else) - remember - the $50K? If the truth be told - that money only went a very small way to ‘keeping the wolf at the door’ as it were. I’ve ploughed so much into THIS business and lost a ‘sh1tpile’ over the past couple of months BECAUSE I was ‘impatient’ and ‘unmethodical’ and ‘new’ and ‘inexperienced’ and - when the ‘windfall’ happened - I really thought OK - this is it - FINALLY - as someone else said ‘the light has come on’ or something like that. OK - I should be grateful for the ‘windfall’ because things at that time were pretty much ‘down to the wire’ and had that NOT happened - I’m not sure I’d be sitting here typing this message because I probably would not have a workstation to type it on (and the worst part is that I know that even if things had got THAT bad I’d still not have been able to stand back and say ‘OK - enough already - this is not going to work for you’)!!!
Actually - while I was typing this message - I was interrupted by someone and we started having a chat - and - another point came to me: I was (have been) self employed for over fourteen years now - and I can tell you - that I have NEVER put as much time and effort into ANYTHING else (my previous business) in those fourteen years as I have with this - so you just ‘expect’ it to pay off.
Then of course there is the ‘physical’ side to all of this i.e. the lack of sleep and the odd hours and trying to ‘fit everything in’ that other ‘normal’ people just have to take in their stride. I mean - I wait until 00h00 here to update my ‘wishlist’ and to ‘spew forth my inane drivel’ on you people - then I’m up at 06h00 to update my other stuff because that’s when my other broker/s update their daily charts. Then I have to get my son ready for school and take him to school and rush back to make sure I’m in time for the European market opening. Once that happens and I’m sure that things are ‘stable’ I TRY to get some sleep but sleeping in the day is not something I can get used to (I’ll tell you - for the first time in my life - I ‘feel’ for people that work ‘shifts’). Then I fetch my son from school and spend the next couple of hours staring at the screens for the US sessions (and this is when most of the ‘Analaysis-Paralysis’ comes into play by the way). The US closes at 22h00 here - so - I find something to do until 00h00 and the whole ‘process’ begins again. Then of course the weekends are pretty much ‘f**ked’ because you’re so tired AND don’t know what to do with yourself because the markets (or rather the brokers) are all closed so you can’t trade so you end up ‘wishing’ Saturday and Sunday away so that you can get to 23h00 on Sunday night to start trading again!!! Now this would not be so bad IF you were ‘making it in truckloads’ but right now - there seems to be something wrong with this ‘picture’!!!
I’ll tell you one thing - if this pays off the way I think (hope) it should - God help the person that says ‘yes - but he was lucky - he made his money on the stock exchange’!!! I promise you I’ll take the thickest and biggest traders manual that I can lay my hands on and shove it in the (their) smallest orifice I can find!!!
The only thing that keeps the ‘hop skip and jump in my step’ is that I AM one of those very ‘lucky’ people. My whole life I’ve had the ‘knack’ of not only getting ‘down to the wire’ but actually ‘scraping the wire’ and then something happens and I ‘bounce back’. The only difference this time round is that I don’t feel that I’m relying on this ‘luck’ - I mean - I really feel I’m working hard at this - and because of that - yes I do expect it to pay off!!!
Oh well - one day when I’m gone - ‘pushing up daisies’ you know - maybe someone can print this thread out and publish it - you know - ‘Memoirs Of A Trader’ - something like that!!!
Anyway - that’s enough ‘whining’ for one day I suppose!!!
As far as business (trading) is concerned - I see all these ‘imminent’ reversals coming - but at the moment that’s all they’re doing - ‘they’re coming’!!!
‘How low can the dollar go’ is the question here???
And Gold - well - now there is talk of $760.
Oil?
Have a nice day!!!
Dale.