Discouraged in not having a real job?

If you’re a private individual trader, you surely sometimes feel that what you’re doing is abnormal. You don’t have a “real job”. And that can be discouraging.

Feelings of discouragement can adversely affect your trading profits.

To counteract such discouragement, you need assurance that other people can and do trade for a living, just like you do. You need assurance that you’re not abnormal, albeit admittedly just a bit different.

Most of the popular literature about other traders feature superstars who work for funds that trade money they get from the public. Titles that come to mind include the Market Wizards series by Jack Schwager. That's not what you need.

What you need are stories about people just like you. People who trade their own money. People who experience drawdowns that last weeks and months...and people who survive and prosper after such drawdowns.

...cont'd tomorrow...

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