50 reasons why you shouldn't be trading or even consider trading if...

1) you need the money
2) you hope to buy something from the paper winning in the trade you just made
3) you want to make a million bucks with 1 lot of a futures contract
4) you set a minimum profit target for the year
5) you don't want to lose
6) you never lost before in anything in your life; more like you bluffed yourself that you never lost
7) you offer people free market tips
8) your wife spends your profits and nags you about your losses
9) you graduated from Harvard or Yale or Princeton or Cornell with an economics or business degree
10) your financial blog is full of analysts reports that justify your positions even when you are losing like crazy
11) you don't allow anyone to post a contrary argument to your positions in your blog even though the market has proven those arguments correct
12) you brag a lot in other peoples blog on how you rob and pick pocket the markets but disappear when you are wrong big time
13) you criticise other traders for learning from books and say that you play by your own rules and still insist on averaging and holding on to your losses even though the market is in a super trend against you
14) you had a group of trading students whom you were teaching and they have now abandoned you
15) your ex-students are now trading successfully in markets you dare not trade and still dare not trade in
16) you thought you had a trading system, when in reality all you had was your hope and opinions
17) you've been called stubborn, egoistic or lansi lanyong too often
18) you think to accept losses is the same as to like losses
19) you think Singapore street food tastes better than Malaysia's
20) you think Ipoh Fried Kway Teow, Penang Laksa and Seremban Beef Noodles originated from Singapore
21) you know the names of all the footballers in the Malaysian football team
22) you have a new child but the last time you had sex with your spouse was over a year ago
23) you don't have a trading system and if you did ,you 2nd guess the signals
24) you don't know who Manny Pacquiao is
25) you think Floyd Mayweather Jr has balls
26) you pester and beg successful traders for their system
27) your charts are so full of indicators and lines that you can't see the price bar at all
28) your charts are so full on indicators and lines and you still don't follow it
29) you say that you'll fight the market because a few lots won't kill you
30) you want to impress a girl/guy/bapok
31) you talk about trading to your non trading friends so often that you suddenly realise that you have no real friends left and the people that hang around you now only want to borrow money from you or get a free lunch
32) you always blame others for your mistakes
33) you are a white skin worshipper
34) you invest in unit trusts
35) you can't think of any other uses for palm oil except as cooking oil and bio-diesel
36) you equate successful trading with passing exams with flying colors
37) you support Liverpool FC even when it's in the relegation zone
38) you think the voice behind Bart Simpson is a guy
39) you find Venus and Serena Williams attractive
40) you hero worship Mao Zedong
41) you are for the return of Chin Peng to Malaysia
42) you still buy 4D,5D,6D and Toto
43) your second home is the casino
44) your second home is the pub
45) you named your sons or dogs Jack ,Jim,Johnnie or Sahib
46) you spend more than what you earn
47) you are about to undergo brain surgery
48) you are about to undergo open heart surgery
49) you listen and followed the advice of Tun Dr. Mahathir not to cut your losses during the stock market crash of 1997
50) you find this article irritating and feel like killing me because I have just described YOU!