Karmacat: I'm passionate about my DFW journey to riches

OliveOyl_2

Squirt the tiles with greatly watered down stardrops (other cleaning products are available), go back 20 mins later and squeedgy down. If there's stuff stuck to the tiles ( I have boys) a scourer or micro-wotsit cloth will do those bits.

I've been known to clean adjacent walls whist sitting on the loo

Karmacat

Olive, thanks for the cleaning tip - I *do* have stardrops!

Ahem, I've done nothing whatsoever from the list.... I've been wandering about the discounts and vouchers board, wondering whether to buy a little table set from Tesco Direct - I was looking at tables yesterday in town. This all started because of the trading (how to be comfortable) and cos when I saw my uncle in Norwich in June, I mentioned, as a laugh, that my dining table is the same one that his dad bought my mum and dad at Paddy's Market in Liverpool in 1952... its true, as well! He has too much good taste to actually say anything, but I could see he was startled.

Two chairs and a table at Tesco are £34.50 plus their tiny little delivery charge (£4.85???) less 3% quidco cashback. It will take up less space, and look more modern, which will encourage me when I think about bringing people back here... thats important socially, y'know!

Red - the trading. Still haven't :mad: :mad: :mad: I [EMAIL="c@ck"]c@ck[/EMAIL] it up by going to bed too late or something, or the usual "ooh, I don't think it will work this time". I have £100 free from NatWest to open a new account with my present spread bettor, which is fun, but I have to trade to keep it! I'm free Monday morning and nearly all of Tuesday, so I have three or four big chances over the next few days..... #'ere we go, 'ere we go, 'ere we go..... #

redsquirrel80

Ahh, I think the old table sounds lovely.. but it's important to feel comfortable in your own space.

Good luck for Monday then

Karmacat

Thanks! The old table is lovely.... and I won't get rid of it! But I do need to move into the twentieth century. I stayed with some friends in Germany for a week or so earlier this year, they live in a modern flat, and there was a lovely sense of spaciousness and plainness to it - I'm quite minimalist by nature.

The trading - I'm going to blu-tak my psychology notes above my desk. And do it. As I've written in my journal times without number, even if I lose money at first, hundreds, even, if I get over my "trigger finger paralysis" I know I'll make oodles of money, cos my system has an edge.

There will be *such* a party when I'm debt free....

GettingThingsDone

Hi KC - Being devil's advocate here (so ignore me if you like!), maybe the reason for your trigger finger paralysis is that your subconscious is trying to tell you that there is no 'system' i.e. all such systems are flawed.

How bad could it be if it all went wrong - what's the scale of your potential exposure?

It sounds like you've done a lot of research and put time and energy into this, which it would be a shame not to use. Is there some way you can mentally separate your trading funds from yourself and pretend they belong to your clients?

gtd

Karmacat

GettingThingsDone wrote: »

Hi KC - Being devil's advocate here (so ignore me if you like!), maybe the reason for your trigger finger paralysis is that your subconscious is trying to tell you that there is no 'system' i.e. all such systems are flawed.

Well, none of them are perfect - but nothing is, they only have to be good enough, i.e. you trade like a casino *owner* - you take every trade the system offers, and about 75% will work. I've paper-tested it for years, literally, with all the moves (profits and losses) written down.

How bad could it be if it all went wrong - what's the scale of your potential exposure?

£20! And at the moment, absolutely nothing, because NatWest have given me £100 to open up a new account - believe me, its nothing to do with the money, its the same fear that expressed itself in my flying phobia and my spider phobia, both of which I've beaten.

It sounds like you've done a lot of research and put time and energy into this, which it would be a shame not to use. Is there some way you can mentally separate your trading funds from yourself and pretend they belong to your clients?

gtd

It already is separate - there's the new Nat West account, and there's my other spreadbet account - money's been sitting in that one for about two and a half years (earning no interest, I might add!).

Its not the money.... I think I'm going to put that in my sig.

I think I've unwittingly turned into a bit of a tease on the trading.... I'm going to have to (take your pick) - step up to the plate/fish or cut bait/sh*t or get off the pot.

But thank you gtd! Once more it confirms that not only does the universe in general want me to do this thing, but its expressing itself very firmly through all the good folk on here!

Karmacat

Karmacat wrote: »

- check out onepoll a la Pandapaws.
- trading market news for the next week has to be listed.
- cook the remaining biscuit mix I made earlier in the week (I only had one fairy-cake-type tray and I'd have eaten it all at once anyway).
- do a lightspeed survey.
- tidy front garden.
- encourage spiders sitting on windows at the back of the house to go back to the garden.

I've done none of this lot! :rotfl: I've been in NOTW thoughts, table-from-Tesco thoughts, and IKEA S shaped armchair-plus-paying for delivery thoughts! I've also been taping a few programmes onto one DVD from a new satellite channel called Body in Balance - I've got bellydancing, Caribbean workout, and ballet from New York City Ballet (I did ballet for a long time as a child & teenager). Well, its important!

EDIT: front garden tidied, some shrubs clipped back and lots of dead stems clipped off.

GettingThingsDone

OK KC, still playing DA here...

I'm not convinced that you're convinced that it will work. You have a way of making oodles of money with no financial risk and yet you're not doing it?

What's the next step? What's the next action you need to take to get the system up-and-running?

gtd

Karmacat

GettingThingsDone wrote: »

OK KC, still playing DA here...

Okay! I can live with that....

I'm not convinced that you're convinced that it will work. You have a way of making oodles of money with no financial risk and yet you're not doing it?

Oui, mon colonel. Absolument. Abso-!!!!!!!g-lutely. You want the truth? I'm a good working class girl from Liverpool, with strong but unspoken socialist roots (which were confirmed at college on reading Marx for the first time and realising that my grandad, who left school at 13, had a copy of the Communist Party Manifesto). I spent my twenties occupying buildings, going on demos, and calling people comrade, you know? I really did. Even tho I bought my flat (in East London) then. Anyway.

Plus, part of me thinks its wrong that it should work, and part of me thinks that it won't work for *me*, as opposed to anyone else - cos I was always the clever one, but completely stupid about practical things. I can't quite shake it.

What's the next step? What's the next action you need to take to get the system up-and-running?

gtd

The next step is either to go back into therapy, which I simply refuse to do, or do what I'm planning to do tomorrow:
- stick the notes of my trading plan and psychology things up on the wall
- trade when I see a signal, whether I believe in it or not. At the moment, it genuinely *isn't* my money, because of the NatWest offer thats up for view on the matched betting board. But that money only lasts 30 days if you don't use it, so I have to use it! Or lose it, as the saying goes!
- I only expect to be able to do one trade tomorrow, I think to take every signal right from the start would be naive, considering how long its taken me to get started. So after that trade, whether the signal is valid or not - I expect to do a happy dance around the floor and run screaming to this board, and this thread, and do the macarena all over it.


I appreciate you posting, thank you! What do you think? :money:

redsquirrel80

Karmacat wrote: »

I've done none of this lot! :rotfl: I've been in NOTW thoughts, table-from-Tesco thoughts, and IKEA S shaped armchair-plus-paying for delivery thoughts! I've also been taping a few programmes onto one DVD from a new satellite channel called Body in Balance - I've got bellydancing, Caribbean workout, and ballet from New York City Ballet (I did ballet for a long time as a child & teenager). Well, its important!

EDIT: front garden tidied, some shrubs clipped back and lots of dead stems clipped off.

NOTW? Sorry, brain is not quite back in gear yet (if it ever is!)

The New York City Ballet workout is fantastic, got their DVDs, definitely easier to follow if you know some ballet already (I did it from age nearly 3 up to 16), don't quite have enough room for some of the jumping/ moving across the room bits though!

I'm always fascinated reading about things you've got up to - the demos, the bit you wrote earlier on my thread about travelling Italy on your own.. I'd so love to hear all your stories over a bottle of (Tesco's finest cheapie) wine