[von949]

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[von949]

Check out the discount...lol




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[NLVgal]

^^ Awesome!

[dynimagelv]

it's just a shame that management has to PAY people to control their kids,,

When i was married to my firstexwifewhatzername and had her two spawn [Freddie Kreuger and the bad seed] i was always certain of one thing....they would behave in public....

[NLVgal]

Originally Posted by dynimagelv

it's just a shame that management has to PAY people to control their kids,,

When i was married to my firstexwifewhatzername and had her two spawn [Freddie Kreuger and the bad seed] i was always certain of one thing....they would behave in public....

My brat often acted up in public, but never in a restaurant. He liked eating out and must have instinctively known that if he pulled any nonsense in a restaurant that next time he'd be sitting at home eating mac and cheese with a babysitter instead of saying "I would like da shwimp, pwease."

Nobody ever gave me a discount, though. Just lots of compliments from waitstaff on his manners. Little did they know.

[Raiderman]

When my girls were young we had people pay our bill twice when we were out in restaurants. I was shocked because I was raised to behave in public.. different times.. different times..

[las vegas drunk]

Originally Posted by Degenerate Gambler43

See; this is what happens on a message board, so I'll tell my story.

I have been a full-time trader for 27 years, beginning @age 18. My father was a developer in Chicago and worked part-time as a professional trader at the CBOT in the '70's.

I began doing charts by 'hand' when I was 12 years old and was trading one of my father's accounts by 15 in his name (swingtrading).

Over the last couple months I have sent LVD on avg. about 3-5 emails per day that also go out to my brother {he runs a GM Pension Fund in Detroit @the GM Building} and my financial partner {who lives in China and part-time in Tel Aviv and Miami Beach}.

These are 90% professional and 'direct/actionable' market briefs that cover a wide variety of asset classes and market approaches. He is absorbing this and building a 'baseline' of knowledge {along with a variety of other profitable approaches from other successful long-term traders} that will be SPECIFIC to the skillset I will teach him.

The depth and breadth of these 'market-related' prescient emails is beyond the scope of this discussion board.

Again, I am not selling anything nor am I soliciting anyone nor am I declaring I make $2 million per year or ridiculous claims as such. I stand on the shoulders of those that came before me. There is nothing new under the Sun.

I risk up to 0.75% of my account per trade in the methodology (1 of them) that I will teach LVD. I consistently earn 25%+ on my 'margin' account each month and have not had a losing month in short-term trading in 87 months.

I value this thread and the people on it and I don't wish anyone to think I am some weird internet person. I am real, have lived in Vegas 4X's now in my career, and not having kids nor a wife I travel where and when I want on a thrifty budget.

Thrifty to a fault I save 85% of my gross income for retirement so that in 5 years at the age of 50 I can buy a small beach house (very modest) for the winter and summer season in different locations by water so I can begin to unwind after (by that point--32 years of full-time work in the financial derivatives industry).

Sorry for the long post. LVD and I met originally through a gambling/gaming website and we both have a passion for math and probabilities and statistics and I LOVE hanging out and drinking in casinos because the 'eye' candy is too good to not leer at!

Not to mention the undulating underbelly of the masses of different shapes/sizes/cultures & debauchery that goes down on the strip after a certain 'tipping point' has been reached.

I met LVD in 2008 (the fall of) and we began doing a 'grind' craps method and he surprised me with his quick recall and ability to grasp mathematical concepts in a direct and applicable way that extended beyond gaming into all areas of life.

We worked together until around late April/early May of '09 when I left for Florida and Tel Aviv before then moving to San Diego for the next 15 months or so.

My work is both an art and a science; mostly a science though. There is no wealth without work and buying and selling money successfully on a daily basis is an 'abstract' skillset that is analagous to performing at a high level in professional sports.

It is not your talent nor your work ethic that 'tilts' the odds in your favor over the long run; it is desire and structure and mental discipline while employing a proven 'positive expectancy' edge that can be slowly but surely built up and compounded (like a business).

My wins and losses are treated as inventory in my business. Liabilities & Expenses are the losses; wins are items I mark up 2 to 3X's my 'wholesale costs.'

There is NOTHING about my personality that would suggest I would be a good trader; nothing. I am a right-brained Type A Alpha male in my regular life outside my vocation.

However, these behaviors are not relevant to successful trading/investing/speculating. Being consistent has everything to do with stopping my personality from getting in the way of analyzing the markets objectively and correctly.

This can be learned quickly though and needn't be a long-term issue for anyone that understands logic and can separate the 'money' from the methodology and mechanics of analyzing price action of any asset class.

Early in my career I thought trading would 'end' my personal life; but I also learned over time (getting older is a privilege) that one can slowly build 'balance' into one's life {yes, step by step} until it is a routine and life then becomes kind of wonderful in short bursts and glimpses--in an otherwise very ordinary existence.

LVD is nearing 40 and if I thought he was not 'trainable' nor could listen well and then implement basic math skills for approximately 90 minutes up to 2 hours per day; even as a friend--I would have told him to move to San Diego and be a beach bum (with alot of sunblock) and enjoy the scenery and I would have provided him with a 'per diem' each day for his 'sweet nectar' needs.



Peace

DG 43

I am still in shock where I was for the last 5 years and what I have become. I never thought in a million years that I would become succesfull and actually live a normal life. I owe everything to this man above me as I could have never have done it without him. To think that I was actually planning to kill myself as recently as June, all I can say is I am now happy that I did not do it. I know people here are going to be surprised to hear this as I have always been a miserable person, but dare I say it, that I am actually happy for once?

[NLVgal]

Originally Posted by las vegas drunk

I am still in shock where I was for the last 5 years and what I have become. I never thought in a million years that I would become succesfull and actually live a normal life. I owe everything to this man above me as I could have never have done it without him. To think that I was actually planning to kill myself as recently as June, all I can say is I am now happy that I did not do it. I know people here are going to be surprised to hear this as I have always been a miserable person, but dare I say it, that I am actually happy for once?

Except when those water dispensers tick you off.

Seriously, good for you. Sometimes life offers up a chance, and you have to shrug off your fears and ingrained attitudes and take it.

[las vegas drunk]

Originally Posted by NLVgal

Except when those water dispensers tick you off.

Seriously, good for you. Sometimes life offers up a chance, and you have to shrug off your fears and ingrained attitudes and take it.

Thank you....my problem is I am still cheap and live the same as I did before as I am compounding until I ultimately get to where I want to be. I have thought about it and it is now time to get water delivered.

[kimba01]

Originally Posted by las vegas drunk

Thank you....my problem is I am still cheap and live the same as I did before as I am compounding until I ultimately get to where I want to be. I have thought about it and it is now time to get water delivered.

Well, how much water do you need? Can't you cook with your tap water? Doesn't it boil off any bacteria and such? I just buy a 24 pack of bottles once a week or so and it is 1.25 at Smith's. But, I do have a filter on my fridge water dispenser and I do use that too.

Good to read that you are doing better. As far as crime goes, I lived in a nice area in a suburb of Detroit and while I was not a victim of anything criminal (Thank God!) I would get a report from the PD, once a week, and it really did shock me...all the burglaries and such. Close by too! Now, if I didn't watch the news or receive that, I would have never known. I do take precautions, but unfortunately, it happens everywhere. I would say that if you think it is getting worse, just now, you are lucky. I think in areas that are not known to be great areas in other cities, it is much worse. I just don't know if I buy into the whole conspiracy theory of doom and gloom. It is just crappy people and it has been going on forever. It was probably going on all while you were contemplating suicide, but you didn't care. Now, you are more focused, you see it.

Hopefully, you can move to a nicer area, where ever you choose that to be, soon. Just don't expect it to be completely crime free.