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Being and Doing, from Bo Keely

December 17, 2015 |

Life has a balance: one is of being and the other is of doing. Your being is your nature that is with you always. You were born with it and didn't have to do anything to get it. You are it.

Doing is an achievement. Whatever you do happens; if you do it, it happens. If you do not do it, it doesn't happen.

Of these two sides of life I prefer action. Action is a choice. You may choose; or you may not choose. This isn't the case with being. You may become a saint or a thief, a CEO or a bum. You can choose, you can change. A saint can become a thief, or viceversa.

There's an odd interplay after many seasons of action. You change your being. Then even greater things are possible. As Mahatma Gandhi said, 'Be the change that you wish to see in the world.'


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  1. Juan Pablo Arango on December 17, 2015 9:19 pm

    Dear Victor,

    I will try to be as quickly as possible because I know that many people contacts you.

    Please let me be one of your employees, you are the trader I admire the most and it would be a dream come true to work with you.

    I am almost 28 years old and I have been studying and trading for 7 years.

    I am addicted to trading and everyday I watch charts for hours trying to find new patterns to exploit. Trading is all I want to do in my life and I even quit from university to focus only on trading, I was studying industrial engineering.

    It’s very tough for me to demonstrate my trading skills to a hedge fund or proprietary trading firm without having a bachelors degree, I’ve sent hundreds of CV’s without success… all these years I have been working in restaurants and saving money to spend it in trading seminars and online courses to become the best trader I could be, I’ve given my 101% to be successful on this business but nobody has given me the opportunity to cooperate.

    I trade forex and futures mainly, but I also know about stocks.
    I designed two swing trading strategies that I’ve manually backtested with great results year by year, I checked each one from year 1997 until present date and both strategies get always more than 25% annual return with many years above 50%; drawdown is minimum as I only risk 2% per trade, maximum drawdown I saw was 12%.

    I am not asking you to give me seed capital to start my own fund, I am offering myself to your fund because my family and I are presently having very very bad financial problems and I need a salary.

    You won’t regret it Victor, I give you my word, trading is everything for me and I can show you proof that my two strategies really work. I can show you by skype, or any conference program that enables screen sharing, my charts so you can confirm that I am completely telling the truth. I am from Colombia, south america and I am living here in the capital Bogota. My email is: jp.arango.m@hotmail.com
    my cellphone is: +57 313 2440458

    Please Victor…

    Kind regards,

    Juan Pablo

  2. Mike Kaminsky on December 20, 2015 7:04 pm

    Great words ! And a nice reminder about this time of Year. Keep Doing !

  3. The Doc on December 23, 2015 9:35 am

    Juan,

    why don’t you export your market data to csv file and import it into R studio. From there you can create For loops to test your system automatically. From there you can get more heavily into programming and its the only way to get taken more seriously in the trading industry. I know in Chicago when trading firms hire they reward math people and programming people and they abuse people who want to be traders. Maybe you’ll find something besides trading to devote more time to that actually earns money. There’s a lot of broken dreams in online trading. I know I’ve had mine broken because I’m exactly like you.

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