"Why Women Dump the Guys Who Try the Hardest"

You paid for dinner. You drove. You said "whatever you want is fine" every single time. All the effort, no expectations.

And she left anyway — probably for a guy who makes her pick up the pizza.

Painful. Also predictable. Her mind quietly concludes that anything requiring zero effort from her is worth exactly zero. You became a free sample, and free samples get taken for granted.

The 22 Rules flip the dynamic. Small shifts that get her investing effort, money, and time in you — until SHE'S the one afraid of losing YOU.

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thomz_amadeus

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Do you know why I love stock trading that bad? Because it’s such a perfect analogy of life.

Prices go up and down. Everything is ruled by cycles, everything is connected together, but besides these two basic truths everything remains fundamentally unpredictable.

He who wants to win must never try to beat the market but must always place himself on the right side of the market.

The vast majority of the crowd fails because they’re human – driven by emotions. When price drops, they hold – driven by hope. When price rises, they’re reluctant to jump in early – driven by fear.

In both cases, they end up losing.

Reminds you someone? I'll always be amazed to notice how similiar we are when dealing with stocks or with girls. It's the exact same range of feelings, from euphoria to renunciation.

On the trading floor like in any stage of life, he who wants to win invests when the price is down – because it WILL go up tomorrow - and sells when the price the high – because it WILL drop tomorrow.

Your girlfriend just dumped you? You’re blazed every evening mixing tears with booze and remorse with smoke? What a lovely situation, it’s time to invest because a profitable trade is coming along and you’ll be a rich man tomorrow.

Invest even when the times are though. Fear has never saved anyone.

Your girl is smoking hot, your car is fast, your house is big and your bank account is full? Beware friend, the downturn isn’t far.

Cut the losses at the moment they appear, so you protect yourself. Hope has never saved anyone neither.

The smart move at the right time. That’s what the mature man does.

Forget all the crap. Ditch the millions of technical stuff they wanted to teach you. In the end, it all comes down to the essentials – and the essentials are always tremendously simple.

A popular wisdom proverb in my home country says “after the rain come the sunshine”.

Just keep yourself on the right side and you’ll be fine. Anytime.

The rest is only noise.
 

"Nervous Around Beautiful Women? There's a Rule for That"

I could talk to any woman I wasn't attracted to. Charming, funny, relaxed. Then a gorgeous woman looked my way and I'd become a sweating, babbling mess.

The fix took me years to find and ten minutes to learn. Nervousness and excitement are the same physical state — pounding heart, adrenaline, flushed face. Your brain just picks the label. And you can pick a better one.

Rule 16 shows you how. You feel the nerves, relabel them as excitement, and let that energy pour out as enthusiasm. Women notice the guy radiating it. They always do.

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Zunder

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thomz_amadeus said:
Do you know why I love stock trading that bad? Because it’s such a perfect analogy of life.

Prices go up and down. Everything is ruled by cycles, everything is connected together, but besides these two basic truths everything remains fundamentally unpredictable.

He who wants to win must never try to beat the market but must always place himself on the right side of the market.

The vast majority of the crowd fails because they’re human – driven by emotions. When price drops, they hold – driven by hope. When price rises, they’re reluctant to jump in early – driven by fear.

In both cases, they end up losing.

Reminds you someone? I'll always be amazed to notice how similiar we are when dealing with stocks or with girls. It's the exact same range of feelings, from euphoria to renunciation.

On the trading floor like in any stage of life, he who wants to win invests when the price is down – because it WILL go up tomorrow - and sells when the price the high – because it WILL drop tomorrow.

Your girlfriend just dumped you? You’re blazed every evening mixing tears with booze and remorse with smoke? What a lovely situation, it’s time to invest because a profitable trade is coming along and you’ll be a rich man tomorrow.

Invest even when the times are though. Fear has never saved anyone.

Your girl is smoking hot, your car is fast, your house is big and your bank account is full? Beware friend, the downturn isn’t far.

Cut the losses at the moment they appear, so you protect yourself. Hope has never saved anyone neither.

The smart move at the right time. That’s what the mature man does.

Forget about all the crap. Forget about the millions of technical stuff they wanted to teach you. In the end, it all comes down to the essentials – and the essentials are always simple.

A popular wisdom proverb in my home country says “after the rain come the sunshine”.

Just keep yourself on the right side and you’ll be fine. Anytime.

The rest is only noise.
Your in Vietnam...
So the Colonel from "Apocalypse Now" lives.
Good first post.
 

steve38

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I can see you are new to the game or you wouldn't post such nonsense. You had a good week and wanted to to brag about it...cool. Get ready for the worst week you will ever have. Why? Cuz ur head is all up in ur ass at this point and ur forgetting the smart **** that got you where u are.

I make my living off people like you...would be nice if you jumped ship and came on over to the good side. You're welcome here, just sit down,shut up and try to learn something...jeez.
 

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steve38 said:
I can see you are new to the game or you wouldn't post such nonsense. You had a good week and wanted to to brag about it...cool. Get ready for the worst week you will ever have. Why? Cuz ur head is all up in ur ass at this point and ur forgetting the smart **** that got you where u are.

I make my living off people like you...would be nice if you jumped ship and came on over to the good side. You're welcome here, just sit down,shut up and try to learn something...jeez.
Wow steve38, the guy is spilling guts, trying to give some advice in the forum, trying to share some life experience, and you feel like you have to come in with the negativity and bad manners. You tell him hes bragging (when hes not hes just trying to give some advice), you tell him his head is up is a$$, and then you say you're welcome here.... just shut up.

It would be way more helpful if you could say what you agreed with, what you disagreed with, and what your own experience is pertaining to what he said.
 

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Like in trading the only thing that matters is the rules that lead you to success. Emotion doesn't factor into any of it. So, first you need to find out what works, then you need to act on your knowlege without letting emotions enter into the equation. Thats true in stock world and girl world.

If you crumble at the first sign of "its going against you" (and it will) in girl world or stock world, you lose. If you focus on the plan that works, without worrying about the money or the sex, you win.
 

"Stop Asking Your Friends What to Text Her"

Your buddy Dave has been single for three years and thinks "hey u up" is a valid strategy. Your other buddy Mike just got dumped and told you to "just be yourself."

You showed them her text. You asked them to decode the emoji. You drafted four responses and sent the screenshot to the group chat for a vote.

She's been waiting forty minutes.

Put the phone down. Stop crowdsourcing your love life. Type something that sounds like you. Hit send. Then go do literally anything else with your evening.

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Zunder

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steve38 said:
I can see you are new to the game or you wouldn't post such nonsense. You had a good week and wanted to to brag about it...cool. Get ready for the worst week you will ever have. Why? Cuz ur head is all up in ur ass at this point and ur forgetting the smart **** that got you where u are.

I make my living off people like you...would be nice if you jumped ship and came on over to the good side. You're welcome here, just sit down,shut up and try to learn something...jeez.
Did he runover your pet dog?
 

Scaramouche

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Dear Steve 38,
I used to trade,in about eight glorious weeks,I made a pot of $11.000 into $69.000 then one Friday Afternoon,things went seriously wrong the next week,I stubbornly refused to bail out,thinking things would improve....Bottom Line,I had $3.500 left.....that is without considering the money I wasted in profligate spending,thinking that I had invented a money printing machine....."A sadder and a wiser Man I rose the morrow morn"
 
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