excuse the spelling:
Actually, I thought I would come back quickly with a decision, so that the remaining people don't get into any verbal disagreements.
I am going to quit SI and SH. There are a number of reasons, I can sassure you, todays evolution was not even high on that list. But it has made consider what was the inevitable.
It all started with the little guilt I felt by missing a RT trade posting, and I had to explain "sorry, too busy couldn't post ontime In XXX at x.xx"
I started feeling guilty, which of course plays on your emotions. So the next trade I would attmept to type in my buy and then when I actually got the stock I then clicked the enter button. That worked until I started missing some stocks because I was typing in that I was buying them..lol
Anyway, there is no secret that emotions and the ability to control them are the key to good trading. Well over the last few months I have found a number of pressures that quite frankly I am not used to.
One was the passing of my wifes father, it still bothers me, he was a great guy.
The second was the continual work I have put into this house, it seems like it is never-ending.
third, the interruptions I get in my day, that I was able to sluff off now "f*cks me up.
Fourth, I try to answer all the PM's I get everyday. I receive about 30 a day and try my best to answer questions as quickly as possible because I feel like I may be holding up someones choice of either not buying a stock or buying, if I don't answer right away.
Fifth, the amount of data my "old brain" can number crunch deminishes as I get older. I find myself "wandering the halwways of the stock exchange" as it were..lol My concentration levels have gone from bleak to outright senility.
Sixth, new traders need people that will spend the time with them to learn the tricks of the trade, I just find I don't have that time anymore.
Seventh, I used to finish the trading day feeling good. I now find myself reading messages on numerous sites accusing me of being 50 people I have never heard of, and trading stocks I never play.
8th, I have lost a close confidant because of a foolish mistake I made on SH, something I will not forgive myself for
9th, Trading has become more "time sensitive" in the last year, time is your enemy if you have none. I have missed trades just because I have been typing in an answer to a question, or been browsing SH for momo stocks. I have found that in both cases, I never have received any benefit doing either. That was not imperative to me before but as i get older it is becomming more and more apparent brain cells are dying quicker than they are being manufactured.
10th. Many of the old traders that we used to really have fun with ae now long gone, some have even passed on. People bring their ego's to the thread, me included, that is not how it used to be. People uused to bring their brains to the thread not their ego's.
11th, I was about to buy a fifth display because 4 was not enough real estate. I soon realized why, SH &SI take up a whole screen.
12th, I think the thread has been dead for a couple of years now, I feel like a gimped up Michael Jordan trying to make a comeback. I wanted the thread the way it was, the problem was I can't remember the wasy it was. All I know is it was better than what it is today.
13th, this has not come as a quick decision, all of these things have played on me for months, Vitalsigns occassionally shakes his head and wonders why I do it, I used to tell ihim it was fun, it isn't anymore.
14th, people now seem to enjoy watching others loose money. It never was that way. If a person lost money you would attempt to help him get back on his feet. Today, SI&SH has a whole host of morons that love to kick someone when they are down. I got my first taste on RKR, then again on GTT, both stocks that I still hold today. People will brag they were in big and yet never came here to give a heads up. There are more SI&SH millionaires than there are people on the planet. Every kid with a keyboard that has nothing to do decides to "bash some guy because he just lost his life savings????
So, this is no ones fault other than my own, I am getting old, and emotional, both are a killer when daytrading. I find my brain functions at about a Pentium 90 in a 2 ghz world so need allthe time I can muster to identify and play stocks.
this next statement won't end the controversy that surrounds SI&SH , but barring my mistake in buying COVD last week.
I swear I have NEVER, bought, sold, shorted an OTCBB stock in my life, to that I swear to almighty God. I have one other alias on SH other than the-Chief, it is Waybillnumber, created when "TODD" got me tossed off of SH for 2 weeks.
I will periodically, in the evenings, drop buy and answer PM's, but I'm a done deal till I get my own act together again.
Good luck, and the best of trading!
Dennis |
