Welcome • User Guide
ToS • Privacy • Canary
Donate • Bugs • License

©2025 Poal.co

847

I know this has a 50/50 chance of helping or being useless, but I'm going to try anyway.

I also know, which I can partially understand, that people think I'm a glownigger. Which I'm not and I'm not trying to convince anyone otherwise. So, give me crap, actual advise or opinions. I'd prefer the latter but expect both.

I wasn't raised by my parents. Long story, doesn't matter but my grandparents raised me. They're awesome and have taught me some things but probably the two best things they ever did for me was ensuring I was raised knowing God both in the home and with an excellent private Christian school education. One thing they never helped me with or taught me was to have direction and ambition. It led to me being pretty aimless. I was in the National Guard as a combat medic/EMT but other than that I lived a life where I never thought about a future. I lived for right here, right now. My dad died when he was 45 and never accomplished anything. I was 25 when he died and now, as I just turned 40, will absolutely not end up the same way.

So, I've been trying to find something that I can learn and do to ensure I can provide for myself and help those around me as well as give me some direction and focus.

I stumbled upon someone and MAYBE an opportunity. When she was still a teenager her uncle, who had traded futures for decades, brought her in and condensed his entire knowledge base down to the absolute minimum. She's been doing it for going on 10 years now, I believe, and she knows her stuff. Now, she has started a sort of program, or something, in which she teaches the exact method her uncle taught her and that she uses every day - and succeeds.

Learning has never been a problem, I know I have the capability to do this, I wonder if learning to trade futures is something WORTH learning.

Don't focus on the HOW I'd go about learning this. And if this isn't something worth doing, what would be something else I could look into learning and making a career out of? Preferably in same lone wolf style work that is like trading futures. I'm not interested in interfacing with people all day.

So, that's it. I'll definitely read everything, but will only respond to replies worth replying to but it may take time.

I know this has a 50/50 chance of helping or being useless, but I'm going to try anyway. I also know, which I can partially understand, that people think I'm a glownigger. Which I'm not and I'm not trying to convince anyone otherwise. So, give me crap, actual advise or opinions. I'd prefer the latter but expect both. I wasn't raised by my parents. Long story, doesn't matter but my grandparents raised me. They're awesome and have taught me some things but probably the two best things they ever did for me was ensuring I was raised knowing God both in the home and with an excellent private Christian school education. One thing they never helped me with or taught me was to have direction and ambition. It led to me being pretty aimless. I was in the National Guard as a combat medic/EMT but other than that I lived a life where I never thought about a future. I lived for right here, right now. My dad died when he was 45 and never accomplished anything. I was 25 when he died and now, as I just turned 40, will absolutely not end up the same way. So, I've been trying to find something that I can learn and do to ensure I can provide for myself and help those around me as well as give me some direction and focus. I stumbled upon someone and MAYBE an opportunity. When she was still a teenager her uncle, who had traded futures for decades, brought her in and condensed his entire knowledge base down to the absolute minimum. She's been doing it for going on 10 years now, I believe, and she knows her stuff. Now, she has started a sort of program, or something, in which she teaches the exact method her uncle taught her and that she uses every day - and succeeds. Learning has never been a problem, I know I have the capability to do this, I wonder if learning to trade futures is something WORTH learning. Don't focus on the HOW I'd go about learning this. And if this isn't something worth doing, what would be something else I could look into learning and making a career out of? Preferably in same lone wolf style work that is like trading futures. I'm not interested in interfacing with people all day. So, that's it. I'll definitely read everything, but will only respond to replies worth replying to but it may take time.

(post is archived)

You are currently inside a comment thread.
Click here to see all the comments (52).
[–] • 1 pt

It's not worth doing. The statistical offs of beating a simple S&P 500 Index without insider knowledge is negligible. Anyone who can consistently beat it won't teach anyone else for the same reason I wont teach you where I found buried treasure.

As for feeling aimless, I can tell you exactly why that is. Your parents failed to raise you, and your grandparents never bothered to tell you how and why they screwed up in raising one parent and vetting the other. So as far as you're concerned, any major life plans and goals you establish could randomly explode one day for no known reason. Which will make you unbelievably adverse to picking a goal. For much the same reason you're adverse to going for a stroll if you live in a middle of a minefield. Have a no joke talk with them about how and why they screwed up and I bet your aimlessness will vanish.

[–] • 1 pt

It's not worth doing. The statistical offs of beating a simple S&P 500 Index without insider knowledge is negligible. Anyone who can consistently beat it won't teach anyone else for the same reason I wont teach you where I found buried treasure.

This is exactly right.

the woman you described sounds like a bull shit artist. I'm not opposed to you trying to learn stuff. Some people can beat the market, perhaps you'll do OK.

My concern is this woman ripping you off and draining your bank account. If she's charging a few hundred dollars for a class, then it's whatever. If you lose $400 and never make it back I think you'll live. If she's charging thousands and thousands though, you need to run.

There are already lots of traders who explain what they're doing for free.

[–] • 0 pt

She doesn't make money from teaching people what she was taught for free. And I'm talking about futures, not stocks.

[–] • 0 pt

She doesn't make money from teaching people

That sounds fine then. I don't believe it, if I'm being fully honest with you. It does sound OK though.

I believe once you show up in person there will be a reason or some situation where you suddenly need to give someone money.

Remember you're allowed to lie and say you'll give them everything they want when you get paid next Friday, and then just block their numbers after you walk out.

Good luck.

[–] • 0 pt

I know exactly why I'm in the situation I'm in, having the people who raised me and provided for me tell me how they screwed up will help literally nothing.

Isn't the S&P 500 only stocks or do they do futures?

[–] • 0 pt

Stocks

[–] • 0 pt

Yeah, I've no interest in that. Because stocks are too volatile and information is a huge part of that process. Which is why futures is a significantly better option.