dolivent

Traders have been getting chopped up. @TheRRRGTrader says: why don’t you do a stack on this? My first reaction: I’m risk averse. I’ve never boom and busted. I can’t write that stack! But then I had to abandon my other stack ideas. The tests failed. That reminded me of the PTJ quote (used at the start of the stack). And of my own biggest failures from the past: not as a trader, but in my primary field. The one that truly changed my trajectory also came just as things were cruising like never before. That made me realise I CAN write for those traders. Not about how to stop being a boom-and-bust trader — I’ll leave that to others — but about how you can later look back at that failure, and recognise it as your turning point. My own biggest failures were as a writer. But bouncing back from them made me better. Not just as a writer, but also as a trader and person. The very fact you choose to learn from your failures, rather than give up, builds your character in a way that victory never will.