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AKA - Trading my way to financial freedom.

So what does one do when one comes into some money? The ’safe’ thing to do would be to invest it. The ’smart’ thing to do would be to use it to make more money. This is what separates an investor from a trader. Right now I am playing it both ways by putting my money in the hands of a competent investor who also is a competent trader and mentor. He is showing me the ropes and showing me how I too can learn to trade my way to financial freedom. By the way, that is the title of my first ‘textbook’ on the subject; Van Tharp’s “Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom“. Great read so far and I also highly recommend  Curtis Faith’s  “The Way of the Turtle“, which I liked so much I cribbed the title for a new category.

I haven’t made any trades yet, nor do I plan to for a while, but I am watching the moves of my mentor, studying theory, and contemplating the pros and cons of various systems used by traders.

One thing that I have heard in common from all these sources is that trading is mostly simple to understand and difficult to execute. This is because most good traders will tell you that it is psychology that separates the successful from the broke.

My mentor tells me that my software testing background, combined with my philosophical and spiritual views, should take me a long way toward actually achieving my goals of financial independence.

I plan to share all my own experiences along the way in this new category; “Way of the Turtle.”

Will history teach us nothing?

“The national budget must be balanced.  The public debt must be reduced.  The arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled.  Payments to foreign governments must be reduced, if the nation doesn’t want to go bankrupt.  People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.”

- Marcus Tullius Cicero in Rome, 55 BC

You, perhaps more than any other, taught me how to explore the mind, by providing a simple framework whereby my imagination could know no bounds.

Thank you for your life’s work sweet man.

…These rules are strictly fantasy. Those wargamers who lack imagination, those who don’t care for Burroughs’ Martian adventures where John Carter is groping through black pits, who feel no thrill upon reading Howard’s Conan saga, who do not enjoy the de Camp & Pratt fantasies or Friz Leiber’s Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser pitting their swords against evil sorceries will not be likely to find that these rules are the answer to their prayers. With this last bit of advice we invite you to read on and enjoy a “world” where the fantastic is fact and magic really works!

E.Gary Gygax
TSR Hobbies, Inc.
1 November 1973
Lake Geneva, Wisconsin