Day of acquaintance with the stock exchange or the first day of a trader's life
Емельянов Алексей Сергеевич в рамках конкурса «One day in the life of a trader!» рассказывает нам о своем самом первом дне в роли спекулянта.
After finishing reading one of Robert Kiyosaki's books, I seriously thought about it. Well, yes, it would be nice to buy stocks and trade futuresand transfer all the money I earned to the bank, to a deposit opened in advance. But if it was more or less realistic to open a bank account, I had no idea where to find a broker or what the stock exchange was. Well, as long as I have the energy and the 10,000,000 roubles set aside, I need to act!
To begin with, I visited all the websites of the banks available in my city, studied the interest rates, decided on a choice, but somehow it was not possible to bring the matter to an end - something always got in the way. A week, a second week, the money continues to lie in the closet...
On one of the next days I received a message on my cell phone from my school friend, with whom I could see only once a year, as he was studying in another city, with a proposal to meet. Naturally, I was glad to see my friend again and gladly set the time and place of the meeting, it was the same beer bar, where we skipped extra lessons in the 10th and 11th grade. The conversation started as usual, talking about how everyone was doing, successes for the year and so on:
— Да всё нормально, машину купил, работаю там же, в страйкбол играю, игра типа пэйнтбола, только оружие как настоящее, форма, ну знаешь, наверное!?
-I know I'm studying in the countryside. That's all well and good, but I play the stock market.
-The stock exchange? Where's that?
-Hahah, well the website is there, you open a trading account and trade through a broker!
— Блин, да не может быть такого, я только недавно книгу дочитал, заинтересовался этой темой очень, расскажи подробнее, а может вообще, покажешь, что там и как, а денег много заработал уже?
— Да ты успокойся, это не так просто, меня парень знакомый учил немного, он “матёрый” уже, суммы приличные поднимает. Я пока только 200$ проиграл, ну и сейчас 150$ на счету, начинал с 50.
-Fuck, man, come on, let's go show you!? It's a sign!!! 🙂 🙂
— Ладно, бери “Пропуск” (он указал на разливочный аппарат) и пойдём ко мне, да только не много, нам предстоит долгая беседа…
On this day I first learned about the stock exchange, about the trading platform, about support and resistance lines, Japanese candlesticks and many other things of a trader's life. Naturally, probably like many beginners, I failed at first. I lost a considerable amount of money, but the books I read before I learned about the stock exchange taught me not to pay attention to failures, but to see them as a reason for success. And it's going great right now!