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Who among us hasn’t had that well-meaning soul try to steer us clear from day trading?
I remember working at Dell in the early 2000’s. I had a fairly easy job at the time. It was an internal support job where we took calls from sales people and tried to answer questions that they didn’t know. At times it was the easiest job I ever had. These were the early days of the internet. And sometimes, for hours on end, I would have 1, maybe 2, three-minute calls per hour answering simple questions about some internal policy. Easy stuff. The rest of the time I was ‘surfing the net’ with my colleagues. One guy got so comfortable he got fired for bringing his video game to work a couple times. The fact is, he could do that and still answer his calls because the queue was so dead most of the time. At least I thought so. Unfortunately for him, our manager didn’t agree. So he was canned and none of us brought video games up to work again. Such was my life at Dell in the early 2000s.
Day Trading is for Fools?
Anyway, I remember chatting with one of the team leads about my desire to get into trading. I had just met a couple traders at church and was interested to get started in their program. Being a more cautious person than yours truly, he recounted his ‘friend’ who tried day trading and failed miserably. He didn’t know how anyone could make it as a day trader. Nevermind how bank traders make a living day trading. Forget also how a host of other day trading jobs pepper the financial services industry. But he was in tech and they were in finance and never the twain shall meet. At least until the tech guys need money. Then they know who to call.
Of course, that wasn’t the only person tried to steer me clear of day trading. There was my dad, then a client with his tale of a guy who killed himself after losing big in the market. Then there was a former boss who told tales of a former college athlete at our alma mater who swindled donors out of millions in a Ponzi scheme. Aside from my dad, none of these guys were that interested in trading. But they distrusted ‘day trading’ vehemently. It’s got a bad rap.
Don’t get me wrong.
Day trading can end pretty badly for some people. The most famous of those bad endings came in the postscript to Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, probably the most well-known trading tale in the industry. In the end, the protagonist, killed himself. That man was a day trader. True story. Yes, some day traders meet a horrible end. But does that mean, dear logic students, that ALL traders blow their brains out? I don’t think so. So despite your friends’ well-meaning advice, chart your own course in life. The road to day trading doesn’t always end at the mortuary…sometimes…but not usually.
That was easily the longest introduction to a Trading Story podcast episode to date. But you guys didn’t download this episode to hear about day trading naysayers in my past. No, you want know something about day trading. So here goes…
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