Secondly, it’s no secret that I’ve never been one of those people that lived to trade. I’m more about wine, women, and music. The most important thing to me is quality of life.

I got into trading at a time when I was thinking “wouldn’t it be awesome not to have to go to this job?”

Now I’m thinking “wouldn’t it be awesome if I didn’t have to do anything at all if I didn’t want to?” I want to see if I can move to mechanical trading. I want to make as much of my income as passive as possible. Once we’ve finished expanding eotpro to all of our targeted platforms, that income will be fairly passive, other than enhancements that we’ll make along the way.

But most importantly, none of that work will have to be done at any particular time of day (or any particular day, for that matter). More freedom == happier Richard.

Also, it will be a nice change after 3 years of staring at charts every day. Ask my girlfriend… I like variety! :-)

I am one of those silent readers which have always been looking forward for your posts.

What I would say is really without any offense but if you are willing to stop trading in exchange for the other stuff you would like to do, it shows (in an implicit subsconscious way) that you are not happy with trading at all, that it really drains your life in some way or another and you rather prefer try do other “classic” stuff instead of trading.

You are implicitly saying that trading is very hard and time consuming and the other stuff is easier on you.

Its interesting because when you think about the way “trading” is sold by marketers (which is partially true) is that you can have the lifestyle you want and that you are able to leverage your time as your account grows, which is true… but if that were sooo true then why arent you at best leveraging your trades so you make more money out of it and drop “other” stuff.?

As I say Im not trying to offend you but making a point here and that is that trading is hard and even when the reward might be bigger than other endeavours one is still deciding to do other stuff instead of trading.

Honestly, been there done that,, I had to step out of daytrading and move to the daily trading chart in order to regain some emotional strength but still I hate to see that in a year time I get to make 100 trades which might not always yield the greatest result (because of lack of data points per year).

So keep on moving and thanks for sharing your thoughts.

Gustav

Great blog, great ‘(dare I say) integrity.

(and finish doing my taxes)!

I’m sure you can find something that will work for you.