Tell us the story of how you became a trader

Flake

I landed my first equity trading gig during my junior year at a non-target but let's take a step back and look at how it all started.

My freshman year I was running my parents' E-Trade account and developed excellent stock picking skills. My mom was so proud of the returns I was able to achieve that she would constantly brag about it at work (comparing me to the likes of a young Einhorn) and it just happened that her boss wanted to discuss a few of my top picks with me. After about 3-4 of my initially successful trading ideas, my mom's boss started to lose a lot of money. This is when my mom got scared, and said, 'You're movin' with your auntie and uncle in Bel-Air.' I whistled for a cab and when it came near The license plate said fresh and it had dice in the mirror. If anything I could say that this cab was rare, but I thought, 'Nah, forget it. Yo, holmes to Bel-Air!' I pulled up to the house about 7 or 8 and I yelled to the cabbie, 'Yo homes smell ya later!' Looked at my kingdom I was finally there, to sit on my throne as the prince of Bel-Air.

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aicccia

I came from the deep south, family knew nothing about finance. For my 18th birthday, my parents sat me down in the kitchen and told me about a online investment program that returned 200% a month, and as a birthday present, they said they'd invest $300 into it for me.

Six months later, the program was *miraculously* still running and the $300 had turned into $20,000. I withdrew $4000 and started putting some of it into other similar investment programs. Unfortunately most of them went bust with a few months and so I began to get a little frustrated. All these programs credited the forex market as the source of their returns so I decided to cut the middle man out and learn to trade the forex market myself.

I learned to trade completely on my own, after dropping out of college(never took econ or calculus), so my trading methods are very unorthodox and very simple. Which is probably why they're successful.

No one else has a story like that.

true story? sounds amazing.

aicccia

I came from the deep south, family knew nothing about finance. For my 18th birthday, my parents sat me down in the kitchen and told me about a online investment program that returned 200% a month, and as a birthday present, they said they'd invest $300 into it for me.

Six months later, the program was *miraculously* still running and the $300 had turned into $20,000. I withdrew $4000 and started putting some of it into other similar investment programs. Unfortunately most of them went bust with a few months and so I began to get a little frustrated. All these programs credited the forex market as the source of their returns so I decided to cut the middle man out and learn to trade the forex market myself.

I learned to trade completely on my own, after dropping out of college(never took econ or calculus), so my trading methods are very unorthodox and very simple. Which is probably why they're successful.

No one else has a story like that.

More please, im so sick of all these dweebs on here that all have the same story.

Target school -> analyst -> bschool -> MD/blalbla

or the "Im from a non-target, and worked as a social media manager for free for a few months, what are my chances?"

smallmoneygrowerI have a question for those reminscing about their employment roots has anyone ever forgotten how to analyze stock after doing it successfully for months and making good money, because I just did what mystikal would call a bounce back or what robin williams would call a happy thought in peter pan. I just want to know if my brain is melting or if like day- day said in next friday playas f%ck up

Im simply restating my question

therealweinsteinGave an MD a handjob