David holds an interview with Trader Mark McRae over his interests outside of trading.
Mark: There was a good friend of mine at one point who wanted to try trading, and his question to me was exactly how difficult it was. My answer was: “I’m actually psychic. I’ll prove it to you, I’ll show you how easy this market is.” At that time it was the first Friday of that month, and the time was eight thirty, Eastern standard time. I put him on the market and told him that it was going to go up, or it was going to go down in about thirty seconds, but it was going to go in one direction regardless. Naturally he did not believe me.
As he watched, he was amazed when the market went up two hundred points in the period of time that I had predicted. He asked me if I could always do that, and I said yes. You have to understand that this was the time before news trading became popular. Predicting what will happen with money management is hard, and staying in the game is of crucial importance.
David: That brings me to a question that I really didn’t want to ask you, but if you are so successful in the market, then why do you bother teaching others how to do it? In all honesty, wouldn’t it be better to make money off somewhere by yourself keeping your trading system secret?
Mark: That’s an easy answer – to make money. I mean, that’s why I teach people how to check the markets. It doesn’t matter how philanthropic you would like to be, your first objective is to make money for whatever you are going to do with it. But there are lots of different parts of the business of trading, and if you think of learning trading, you probably couldn’t learn how to count, unless somebody read a book to you some time. Somebody has to teach somebody. Now here I am. I’m in Australia, in Melbourne, and I’m not trading.
So even though a large part of your trading — you really have to be active in trading if you are going to be active, even if you use daily charts, you have to monitor it on a regular basis. So when I can’t, on occasions like this, the royalties, or the money that I make from selling books and courses, or I don’t teach people anymore, but the little money that I make from the other interests in trading is what helps support me.
It takes out the fluctuations if you like, because trading, regardless of how well you do, has ups and downs. So the teaching part, or the educational part, brings in enough income to take the pressure off when I’m not trading, and affords me the luxury of doing things like this, coming over here and seeing you guys. So why do I teach if I’m so successful trading? To make money.
David: Well that’s a pretty good answer. I feel you’ve answers all the questions about stock trading systems I can think of. What kind of money do you need to make to do this full time? Should other people involved in trading try other interests? Should other people actually do this?
Mark: In all honesty, this is something that anyone could do to make extra money on the side, and if you are comfortable with it, then go for it.
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