On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 12:47 AM, Mick <[email protected]> wrote: > On Friday 16 Sep 2011 05:13:02 Pandu Poluan wrote: >> On Sep 16, 2011 3:52 AM, "Mark Knecht" <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Alan McKinnon <[email protected]> >> >> wrote: >> > > On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 20:18:27 +0100 >> > > >> > > Neil Bothwick <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 12:07:58 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: >> > >> > While writing this the 24th trade completed (a winner) and the 25th >> > >> > trade has started. It's a good day when you make money while writing >> > >> > email responses to gentoo-users... :-) >> > >> >> > >> I'll have to take your word for that :) >> > > >> > > I'm fed up being a sysadmin. >> > > I want a job like Mark's. >> > >> > Today was a good day. They aren't all like this. 27 trades, 20 >> > winners, more money today than I used to earn in 2-3 days working in >> > Silicon Valley as a VP of Engineering and I don't work for anyone >> > except myself and my family doing this. >> > >> > >> > The bad part? It took me about 5 years of self financing my own >> > education in trading to get here so I'm not sure I'll _ever_ climb out >> > of the hold I dug getting here. Be careful what you wish for... >> >> A financial whiz with extensive IT Technical skillset is always an awesome >> sight to behold :-) >> >> (and gosh, I'm *seriously* considering of doing some serious study on >> Options after finding your job. Damn you, Mark! :-P ) > > Hmm ... Mark you didn't tell us what happens on a *bad* day! >
Way off topic for this list but the metaphor I'd use is that while hunched over my keyboard my computer suddenly grows arms, shoves it's hands up inside my rib cage, rips my hearts out and holds it over me while writhing on the floor I watch the world grow black. The world of trading is 99% boredom, 1% terror...
