Results 1 ... 35 found in all logged channels for 'feel like trader'
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: the danger is, even if you've 'infinite' dough, is that you won't actually attempt anyffin genuinely hard, and consequently will learn ~0, while 'feeling like a trader'(tm)(r)(tlp) quite satisfyingly
(asciilifeform) adlai: fwiw, this kind of computation is precisely the reason I've repeatedly considered joining your datacentre clientel; when I "feel like trader", from my own proverbial bathtub... the forex torsion is computed on an untethered guitar string, and it sounds worse than terrible.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: 'feeling like a trader'(tm)(r)(tlp)
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: hunt for the tiger's cock delivers moar of what tlp called 'feeling like a trader'
(trilema) asciilifeform: re that 'mac-10' ( famously rejected by army commission with phrase 'this would be great for warfare inside a phone booth' ) -- americans very fond in recent decades of 'picturesque', loud, but entire impractical small arms. iirc mp even wrote a piece on subj, along the lines of tlp's 'this is not to win, but to Feel Like A Trader'.
(trilema) snsabot: Logged on 2019-08-17 15:19:57 asciilifeform: anyffin to keep the 'feel like a trader'(tm) tards from waking up to fact that pressure washer + petrol easily mows down 1000+ , while e.g. kalash into crowd, lucky if 100.
(trilema) asciilifeform: anyffin to keep the 'feel like a trader'(tm) tards from waking up to fact that pressure washer + petrol easily mows down 1000+ , while e.g. kalash into crowd, lucky if 100.
(trilema) asciilifeform pictures already the coming orgy of derps , writing 'ada' cum heapism/pointers , so to 'feel like a trader^H^H^H^H^Hboeing' etc
(trilema) PeterL: recently I saw an ad for some brokerage service, they actually included as one of the selling points "you can feel like a trader!"
(trilema) asciilifeform: diana_coman: tlp had the piece re 'they get faux-brokerage acct to Feel Like a Trader'
(trilema) asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: even funnier -- d00d dun actually need that 5k for anyffin, he inherited bargefull of moola at some pt in '14-15 , collects 'rolexes' etc. he's doin' it to (per tlp) 'Feel Like a Trader'(tm)
(trilema) a111: 3 results for "feel like a trader", http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=feel%20like%20a%20trader
(trilema) ben_vulpes: definitely not targeting problem gamblers and people who want to feel like traders
(trilema) mircea_popescu: how's that bit from psychology of bagholder, "succeeds at feeling like a trader, whioch was the point" ?
(trilema) mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the trend of calling them "financial products" btw smacks of the whole "they fail at trading but succeed at feeling like a trader". basically western banking is moving into las vegas' niche, which is why that port got sanded.
(trilema) mircea_popescu: but the whole fucking shebang is "feeling like a trader". hence what they want is "google infrastructure for the rest of us". because totally, google first built the infrastructure and THEN was google. not the other fucking way around, first came up with page rank and then had to burn the cash in some accountant-permissible way
(trilema) mircea_popescu: shinohai gaw fallout innit ? the same fucktards who were importantly commenting on websites, rettardit, tardstalk, what have you and "feeling like a trader/investor/capitalist" for a year or so.
(trilema) adlai: jurov has been kindly humoring my delusions of "feeling like a trader", and continues to do so.
(trilema) mircea_popescu: jurov "they don't succeed at making money, but that's secondary - they succeed at feeling like a trader".
(trilema) adlai: "if you're a human trader, there's really no place like it"... it's all about how it makes you feel
(trilema) adlai: pete_dushenski: doesn't your "trader's delight" article boil down to ballas's "they are successful at feeling like a trader" ?
(trilema) mircea_popescu: "The mistake is in thinking this has anything to do with the money. It's said that most at home traders fail, but this is incorrect: they fail at making money, but they are successful at feeling like a trader."
(trilema) mike_c: for such an active trader, it feels like an important piece of information to give away. but the alternative is to basically say nothing each month except BTC + (atc converted to btc). so i don't know what you can do about that.
(trilema) bounce: plenty people care about winning small in the same way that wossname home traders want to feel like a trader much more than making money trading
(trilema) ThickAsThieves: The mistake is in thinking this has anything to do with the money. It's said that most at home traders fail, but this is incorrect: they fail at making money, but they are successful at feeling like a trader. That is the goal; the money is secondary, which is why they fail at making it. The buy/hold/reinvest the dividends strategy of Buffet is totally opposite to what's desired,