After having been the only person on earth to be goxed by both Kraken and Finex in the same week, I'm confident Mat will be back for round two of casino gulag Finex when it reopens.
No chance of that.
a) I no longer have the funds to make it worthwhile (I am still 50/50 whether I am going to get anything out of Bitfinex, anytime soon)
b) Even if I did, I would be insane to entrust any significant amount of funds to any Bitcoin exchange, period.
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c) my decision making is fucking atrocious.
People who have difficulty and/or confidence in making decisions, have no business trading. Trading is the ultimate decision making game.
And the amount of times that I have agonised over the fact that I had my limit orders set on BFX, in order to get my BTC off and turned into GBP, only to have discovered that I had left my mobile phone at my mothers, and when I called my mother for 2FA code, she wasn't in, etc etc.... I am the type of person that reads a lot of meaning into these things.....I had exactly the right idea in my head, i.e. "Get everything off BTC exchanges!", yet a cruel conspiracy of coincidences, sees that despite *knowing* to get the fuck off the motorway, I am still standing around in the middle of it, staring gormlessly at the speeding tanker heading right towards me.
This sounds all too familiar with my experiences trading. Often have the right ideas, but just have a knack of making the wrong decisions time and time again.
Failing a personality/karma transplant, I got to get the fuck away from this shit otherwise I will get my ass handed to me (already have).
Dont waste your time with this bullshit guys.
Remmeber the number one rule is dont lose money? In other words only only pull the trigger when you are really sure of it. Make sure you have waited as long as possible and if there is an excuse not to make a trade then take the excuse.
It is better to avoid losses and do nothing than to make good trades and then bad ones that cancel the good ones and more.
Remember guys the best action in this game, 99% of the time is "DO NOTHING.'
The market will always be open.
At the end of the day, there are other ways to make money in this life. Spend most of your time on those ways not on trading. Ocassionally there will be an opportunity in trading, when its there take it. However you know the game, how in matt's words "your ass can be handed to you. " . Just think about that before you make 1 single deposit with any broker whether you want that to happen. Remember there are many legendary traders who made millions only to lose it all and die pennyless.
I.E.: Making a profit however big is no good if the road you are travelling on leads eventually to total loss of all your money. Make sure you are not on that road!!!
On the one hand its very difficult to make money but even more difficult in this game is keeping it.