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Strategies & Market Trends : DAYTRADING Fundamentals -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TheKelster who wrote (3004)	8/17/1999 10:13:00 PM
From: KM	Respond to of 18137

That was me with the authority figure hangup <G> But, in truth, aren't we all dealing with the ultimate authority figure (the market)? And if we try to impose our will on that one or ignore its dictates . . . ouch! At least I don't have to make coffee for it <G>

To: TheKelster who wrote (3004)	8/17/1999 11:38:00 PM
From: -	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18137

Wonder if that's a common trait amongst day traders. From years of meeting all kinds of private traders, I can assure you that it is indeed a common trait. There is usually a zest for the independence combined with an overwhelming small-business sort of entrepreneurial streak, and a loathing of the corporate world, sometimes long-developed, sometimes from the get-go. Almost all the successful traders I've met have these characteristics in abundance, myself included. I value the independence more than the bucks, although the two are tightly coupled. As Oz observed recently about something similar, "they walk side by side". -Steve

To: TheKelster who wrote (3004)	8/18/1999 1:53:00 PM
From: marketbrief.com	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18137

KK I think that independent traders as a group are overwhelmingly anti-authoritarian... other characteristics are: cynical, bold, often reclusive, capable of getting extremely snappy real fast, especially with pets who lick them at inopportune times... and I think as a whole we definitely enjoy those hilarious discount broker commercials which tap directly into our senses of humor but probably offend the vast majority of the Arthur Levitt-like world. ~Smart$