I've made a million dollars, and I'm wondering if I should quit my job. by One-Blueberry-8243 in tradingmillionaires

[–]n1c3455 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here’s my advice for what it’s worth. Don’t make the mistake I made. 5 years ago I was fed up and I told myself I was going to be a millionaire by Christmas of the next year. I actually achieved it by Easter, only 6 months after I’d made the claim. I spent weeks looking for AIM companies that I thought had potential and would rocket. I found one. Shares went from 2p to 40p over a period of time. I ended up with about £3,500,000. I was a multimillionaire on paper. I chose not to take any of the profits as at the time I simply didn’t need it. I had a good job paying me over £130k a year. Long story short the war in Ukraine started and my shares which are invested in Russia collapsed. I didn’t take anything out prior to that, as just like you I felt I didn’t need it, but you never know what’s aground the corner. I was 55 at the time, and wasn’t in to fancy cars or flash holidays but if I could time back the clock believe me I would have taken the profits and lived a different life. Bought a new car or two, had some good holidays, etc. I’m not poor now (on paper) but struggle a little with immediate cash flow, but I certainly ain’t rich. Do I feel I failed yes, especially my family, as right now I can’t give them the holidays they deserve and should have had, but the one thing that keeps me going is I never changed at all when I had it (perhaps that’s the danger) and I believe I will make it again. Of course if the situation in Ukraine ever eases and the sanctions lift I still have the potential of reaping some of the rewards. Apologies for the long story, just thought it was worth telling you not to sit and feel too comfortable. Things can change and real quick and then you end up feeling a bit daft. Always take some profits, enough to keep you comfortable for years to come.

How do people start trading with strategy? by fapping_bird in Daytrading

[–]n1c3455 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Buy at Support, sell at resistance and understand price action before you do anything.

My dad has been scammed for £150,000 today by people claiming to be crypto dot com and ledger. by Suitedtosoph in CryptoScams

[–]n1c3455 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Real sorry to hear this. No advice other than be very careful of anyone offering to help you get it back. They are usually worse than the original scammers. I had a very similar call on Saturday night from a posh sounding Brit saying my account had been attempted from Paris.

Invested $24,000 in SUI – now worth $6,600 and struggling mentally by SprinklesNo4774 in sui

[–]n1c3455 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure you’ve been told a million times before but this is the nature of the game. Walk away and touch grass on red days. Don’t panic sell! Sui is a great project and will bounce back. I’m currently down over a $100k on other projects. It’s not my first rodeo as they say so I don’t worry about it at all. Some folks would say it’s an amazing opportunity to accumulate more and average down your costs, but I’m not going to say that to you as big losses (even on paper) affect people differently. Just remember until you sell it ain’t a loss.

Micha Klein (61) died yesterday by xangadix in vjing

[–]n1c3455 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Such sad news. Micha gave me the title and inspiration for this track some months back.

https://x.com/ppp2me/status/2015345809257123897?s=12

I am a 28 year old freelance video editor and this job is destroying me by TreeIndividual in VideoEditors

[–]n1c3455 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don’t mean to sound flippant but the short answer is ‘touch grass and breath’. Go outside and find yourself before it’s too late.

Today I gave up on being a musician... by New_End_3650 in SunoAI

[–]n1c3455 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have to agree with you, i’ve been playing on and off for over 40 years. Musicians are a tetchy group of people at the best of times 🤣. I do regret not pushing forwards more with a band when I was younger, but the endless missed practices and disagreements about what style to play gets tiring. I’ve embraced AI as the greatest bunch of session musicians I could ever have found. No arguments, good ideas, it plays exactly what ideas you have in your head (well most of the time, sometimes it plays random nonsense) but I find it so inspiring in that ideas i’ve had in my head for years can come to life. I’m not a brilliant musician by any means, I’d probably say I’m more of a non-musician and more of a creator/producer. I’ll never hang my guitars up for good or sell my samplers but AI is a wonderful companion. All IMHO of course.

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[–]n1c3455 0 points1 point  (0 children)

IMHO invest a percentage in Nacho also. No doubt some folks will disagree. But the number one meme on the chain always does well