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.....One can always discuss about a medication for sad existence.....!

Quote: Originally Posted by zambuck .....One can always discuss about a medication for sad existence.....! if I'd carried on partying the way I did in my 20's and 30's I'd be dead...still got a life, it's just kinda different now; bigger. better, cleaner...

actually anything that brings money into the uk has to be good. the privateers of old used to go after spanish galleons and bring the money back to the uk. They got knighthoods.

I think we'd get in trouble for attack French and Spanish fishing boats.

I've thought about this a bit more. along with some excellent insights via PM. (references to narcotics notwithstanding ) I think its because in a normal career, you earn more because your peers give you a pay rise. they have deemed you to be worthy of more money. In trading, I effectively decide my own worth. and weirdly, my inability to trade above a certain size may mean I have issues about what I am "entitled" to...

Oxford University academic pledges to give to charity all yearly earnings above £20,000 for the rest of his career. "I was living very happily as a student and worked out what I'd need to continue living like that through my life - or a little bit better, to allow some room for improvement - and then I worked out how much I could do with that amount of money. Dr Ord said said he was happy with his life and did not mind missing...

Quote: Originally Posted by zambuck ....Only medication a trader needs is a few pints and a cigar....! Single malt... ....also the rarer stuff can be a good investment I've heard, and even if it isn't, you can always drink it.

This is a forum thread for discussing the Knowledge Lab Article, " A Medication for Trading Losses? ".

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One of the most fundamental rules to good trading and good investing is to keep emotions out of it. But I think we'd all agree that its one of the hardest things to do.