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Re: Ask HN: My company has been acquired and I'm kicked out. What should I do now?

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Post by SirLJ »

logicallee wrote: post #168
SirLJ wrote: post #167

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you that naive in real life as well? I can photoshop a statement showing gazillion dollars in my account, but how about first you go into my profile and show the community exactly how I am running a trading school, because this is how you came out swinging at me unprovoked 2 posts ago... I don't like bullies in real life and even less hidden on the net...

Don't you make more money from your web site than you do from trading?

What website? the link in my profile? did you ever bother to look at it to see that this is not a trading school website and I am not associate with it in any shape or form, you can go ahead and ask the owner...

The only reason this site is in my profile is to show the naive people interested in the stock market that they should never ever pay for a trading school or trust a trading guru, because all of them are failed traders out to scam and steal... Just read trough the heart breaking stories and maybe just maybe someone in the community can help put some of those people in jail... Thant is the whole idea, but I bet you wouldn't understand...

Re: Ask HN: My company has been acquired and I'm kicked out. What should I do now?

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Post by SirLJ »

aws_ls wrote: post #122
SirLJ wrote: post #93

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Are you kidding me? All trading schools are scams ran by con artists - this is what my profile says in a nutshell...

I think people reacted this way, because perhaps your suggestion to OP was not appropriate for this thread. But I do remember reading your comment on the books discussion page few days ago. Actually, I have been thinking along the lines of what your bio description says. And I even bought a book, from the ones you suggested (the history of hedge funds, one). So thanks! I am interested in that area, but constrained fo…

Hey, it was just an idea, I don't think any better or worse than some of the others like go "travel the world" or "go hike" or "feel better", at the end the more ideas the person has, the better would be for him...

For the book, I hope you like it and find it as inspirational as I did... Good luck, think outside the box and don't listen to the naysayers :-)

Re: Ask HN: My company has been acquired and I'm kicked out. What should I do now?

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Post by jacquesm »

SirLJ wrote: post #171
logicallee wrote: post #168

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't you make more money from your web site than you do from trading?

What website? the link in my profile? did you ever bother to look at it to see that this is not a trading school website and I am not associate with it in any shape or form, you can go ahead and ask the owner... The only reason this site is in my profile is to show the naive people interested in the stock market that they should never ever pay for a trading school or trust a trading guru, because all of them are fail…

It appears that the owner of that site is also a scammer of sorts.

https://tradingschools.info/2015/08/05/a-review-of-emmett-mo...

But I assume you already knew that.

Re: Ask HN: My company has been acquired and I'm kicked out. What should I do now?

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Post by logicallee »

SirLJ wrote: post #171
logicallee wrote: post #168

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't you make more money from your web site than you do from trading?

What website? the link in my profile? did you ever bother to look at it to see that this is not a trading school website and I am not associate with it in any shape or form, you can go ahead and ask the owner... The only reason this site is in my profile is to show the naive people interested in the stock market that they should never ever pay for a trading school or trust a trading guru, because all of them are fail…

If this is the case I don't understand why you don't want to give some indication of the "order of magnitude" of your accounts, which you phrased in your original suggestion to original top-level OP (that he should start trading) as, "I have been doing this for years and it changed my life forever in a sense that my family will never have to worry about money and talking generations here."

As you correctly point out, I am putting faith in you because you could photoshop whatever you wanted, but I am asking you not to do so, just show what size you're talking about about. I still have no idea what size that is to you, and asked out of curiosity.

Sorry that I misinterpreted you to be running that site. Most people here put links to their own site in their profile, since a lot of people here run web sites. (And it is, after all, your profile.)

Re: Ask HN: My company has been acquired and I'm kicked out. What should I do now?

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Post by SirLJ »

jacquesm wrote: post #173
SirLJ wrote: post #171

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What website? the link in my profile? did you ever bother to look at it to see that this is not a trading school website and I am not associate with it in any shape or form, you can go ahead and ask the owner... The only reason this site is in my profile is to show the naive people interested in the stock market that they should never ever pay for a trading school or trust a trading guru, because all of them are fail…

It appears that the owner of that site is also a scammer of sorts. https://tradingschools.info/2015/08/05/a-review-of-emmett-mo... But I assume you already knew that.

Absolutely, he is a convicted felon, went to jail and paid it's debt to society.. It is stated right there on his website...

https://www.tradingschools.org/warning/

It takes a thief to catch a thief...

Re: Ask HN: My company has been acquired and I'm kicked out. What should I do now?

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Post by cdnsteve »

The good thing about running your own business is you get experience in number of careers all at once.

What parts of your job did you enjoy the most?

- Engineering/Early innovation?

- Management

- Product

- Sales/Marketing?

What parts did you enjoy the least and stress out about, other than being a business owner?

Take that and run with it.

Re: Ask HN: My company has been acquired and I'm kicked out. What should I do now?

#177

Post by erentz »

habosa wrote: post #86

I can't give you any career advice, but given that you have a little money in the bank I'll tell you what I'd do: take a vacation. There are so few times in the average career where there's any opportunity to take a long (months) break from work. Most people in our industry jump from job to job with maybe a week or two in between. Go somewhere youve never been and hang out. Maybe the next move will become obvious to…

+1 for vacation or a mini-sabatical for a few months if you can. If you can put the problem of what to do aside for now and just take some time to renew yourself you'll be surprised at how you'll feel.

Re: Ask HN: My company has been acquired and I'm kicked out. What should I do now?

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Post by tmaly »

If you can, I suggest you take a little time to travel if it is possible for you. Go to some countries with very low costs if saving money is a concern.

Try some new foods, exercise, write a journal of everything you learned. Just try to decompress for a few weeks.

Then you can start fresh with some good energy and direction.

Re: Ask HN: My company has been acquired and I'm kicked out. What should I do now?

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Post by SirLJ »

logicallee wrote: post #174
SirLJ wrote: post #171

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What website? the link in my profile? did you ever bother to look at it to see that this is not a trading school website and I am not associate with it in any shape or form, you can go ahead and ask the owner... The only reason this site is in my profile is to show the naive people interested in the stock market that they should never ever pay for a trading school or trust a trading guru, because all of them are fail…

If this is the case I don't understand why you don't want to give some indication of the "order of magnitude" of your accounts, which you phrased in your original suggestion to original top-level OP (that he should start trading) as, "I have been doing this for years and it changed my life forever in a sense that my family will never have to worry about money and talking generations here." As you correctly point out,…

So let me get this straight: you came at me out of left field trying to bully me with a lot of false accusations, got me down voted by everyone and as a result I have to wait like for 1 hour before I can post a replay and on top of that even as you are telling me "sorry", you are still changing my words, I never said he "should start trading", I just suggested he should look into "the stock market and try to develop trading systems" – this can be done without a single penny be put out in a trade...

Based on all this I don’t think your apology will cut it for me, so please have a bit of dignity and stop commenting after my posts, you have lost the privilege to get answers from me anymore, so don’t be a troll...

Thank you and have a good day.

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