Jan

9

Dear Dailyspec,

Do you think there is a need and market for alleviating the pain when being different hurts?

On any given day we have many people on the site that feel differently and are proud and pumped up about it with all the wonderful possibilities it offers. On a good day, feeling different means feeling free and unconstrained and the world is your oyster and playground.

I know however that there is a dark side to feeling different and on a bad day it can get really dark. On such a day you can go from feeling on top of the world to wondering if you know anything about anything especially after an, "I can't believe I just did it again. How can such a smart guy as me do such a f-in stupid thing AGAIN!"

Having spoken to a number of site members over the years and I know that this is not an uncommon feeling, it's just not part of the spoken culture here.

One of the top things I like about the site is that it is a group of people who appear to give a damn and are making a difference on so many levels. I'm thinking that our giving a damn should extend to caring about each other especially during those bad times when some people go "radio silent" and hear from them for a while (and it wasn't to go and kick butt out in the world).

Here's my question: How prevalent are the dark thoughts of feeling different when you're in the negative end of it, how dark do you think they get and if so, what do you think the need and market is for alleviating some of those thoughts and feelings? I don't know about you, but if and when I were to hear about a member of our site blowing their brains out, it would get to me (especially me being a former shrink and specialist in suicide) and I would think that I, and we,  missed something important.

The site is a special group and I'm honored to be a member.

Wishing you all the best,

Mark


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  1. Andre Wallin on January 9, 2015 6:32 pm

    The supplement available at whole foods called SAM-e is really good for depression. Also learning programming, moving to the suburbs, occasional marijuana use, long distance road trips, talking to other unique people hav all helped me through failing at discretionary trading, family crisis, and failed relationships. But at last i have a back tested system over ten years with promising montecarlo simulation and walk forward analysis. It only took 7 years of hell.

  2. daniel watkins on January 9, 2015 7:54 pm

    Good post. Being a speculator is the loneliest of callings at all times, win or lose. The triumphs can be shared with others, but they are not team wins. Putting a finer point on an earlier post: We are wolves, yes; but we are lone wolves, even when together.

    We must come to our own aid and that’s the way we want it.

    I have recently finished amassing a large, leveraged position in a regional real estate company whose unloved stock is way down but which I believe has great long term potential. Yet, it keeps gnawing its way lower.

    So, I ask myself the question you imply: “Am I the fool and is the ’smart money’ all those who ignore this company and the 40%- of-the-float short interest?” Florida real estate is never going to boom again?

    Right now, I see the glint of Herman Hesse’s “cold steel of the universe” and I feel the pain of being truly alive. There is no one to really help me but me. No one. That is the bittersweet tonic of speculating. A tonic I do not HAVE to sip. I already have plenty of money; plenty for everything I need, plenty for my family, more than plenty.

    So, why do I do this?

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