By Andrew Nyquist
All right folks, we had so much fun with the original version that we knew we needed to do a follow up… not just any follow up, mind you: Part Deux, Twitter collaboration style!
Prepare for tears and side aches. It’s time to go long some trader jokes…
** Best in Breed **
YOU MIGHT BE A TRADER IF…
You look at mountain ranges and see 5-wave structures and 61% retracements. ~ John Navin @JPNavin
You look at the night sky & see a hammer pattern instead of the Big Dipper. ~ Debra Lee @Catwoman2011
Your child says “dad can we order from DPZ, PZZA or Yum tonight? pleazze!” ~ Madison Montana!! @tlmontana
You are Catholic and you confess to the Priest that you broke your own stop loss rules. ~ traderblast @traderblast
You bought $FB at IPO and tonight you’ll sleep like a baby…wake up every hour and cry. ~ Emmanuel P @RomaniakTrader
You might be a trader if you’ve ever considered opening your own Fibonacci’s Italian restaurant. ~ Ross Heart @heartcapital
You might be a trader if you know that Head and Shoulders isn’t referring to a shampoo. ~ Raj Dhaliwal @RSDTrading
Your significant other asks to talk about the future and you blurt out “What happened in the futures!” ~ EconomicDisconnect @GYSC16
You go to the bathroom during market hours and it costs you $5,000. ~ Timothy Collins @Tangletrade
You regularly check the futures on your iphone when you get up in the middle of the night to take a leak. ~ J.C. Parets @allstarcharts
You would take a knife to a gun fight and a gun to a knife fight. ~ MarketPlunger @MarketPlunger
You understand that your best chance of ending up with $1 million in the market is by starting with $2 million. ~ Emmanuel P @RomaniakTrader
Your child get his allowance as a dividend. ~ Madison Montana!! @tlmontana
You think Gone With The Wind is about the monies lost during the Dot Com bust. ~ traderblast @traderblast
The only cable channel number you know is Bloomberg. ~ tradingpoints @tradingpoints
You wake up and look at the alarm clock, you think it is a Reuters machine. ~ Buddy Carter @matterhornbob
You may be a trader if you entrust important financial decisions to perfect strangers you met on Twitter. ~ Debra Lee @Catwoman2011
You have a great tan from the number of screens in front of you. ~ Minyan JR @minyanjr
Someone asks you how you are doing and you answer either resting or poised to go higher. ~ G @TandoorGG
When shopping or eating out, you rate the company’s service as a buy, sell, or hold. ~ Julie @TSXSwingtrader
Your last trade was your “dumbest” trade ever and the one before that the second dumbest ever. ~ Andrew Nyquist @andrewnyquist
** The Second Bestest in Breed **
YOU MIGHT BE A TRADER IF…
You have a T-Shirt of Helicopter Ben on tour at Jackson Hole. ~ Madison Montana!! @tlmontana
You find yourself saying “let me look at just one more chart and I’m ready!” ~ Alex Salomon @Alex__Salomon
You use trading terminology in everyday (normal) conversation and no one but you understands what your saying. ~ Marquette Neal @AMaltsLife
You celebrate your 61.8th birthday. ~ David Owen @IQMSUpdate
You routinely starve yourself from 9:30 to 4:15 EST. ~_peritas @_peritas
You think Jim Cramer belongs in the next Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition. ~ traderblast @traderblast
You have no problem saying “it’s all about swapping firm rounded bottoms” to a group of women. ~ Sean Udall @UdallTechStrat
You equate bungee jumping to $FB chart. ~ Douglas Busch @chartsmarter
You would order Santelli vs Liesman on pay per view. ~ Joshua Schroeder @JoshuaSchroede2
You use the expression “I’m short that dude!” to describe a person you don’t like. ~ Ethan Jestal @EthanJestal
You start organizing products on Walmart shelves in order of ‘best in breed.’ ~ Elekra El Fuego @ElekraElFuego
You see a symbol and you automatically wonder if a company trades under it, then look it up. ~ Drew Shelstad @TheEmulator23
Monday mornings can’t come soon enough! ~ Sean @DipsandValleys
Your cat’s name is NASDAQ. … “But we just call him DAQ for short.” ~ Debra Lee @Catwoman2011
Your dog’s name is Arca. ~ Nalex @JFDI
You have no clue what a company does but know its ticker symbol and 52wk high/low. ~ Sandeep Bhavsar @sandeepbhavsar
The last thing you do before falling asleep is check the Asian markets. Nikkei up 1%. ~ Thomas Fox @QuantMess
You are never wrong, just early. ~ Some Guy @RaleighRules
You admonished your kid using charts of their math grades for showing a topping pattern. ~ EconomicDisconnect @GYSC16
You have considered having your headstone with a 4-character name symbol and a candlestick life chart. ~ Alan Austin @Chart_Man
Your alarm clock sounds like the Opening Bell! ~ Antonino S. Vitale @asVitale
You dream of tickers rolling by like the credits at the end of Star Wars. ~ Roberto Pedone @zerosum24
Thank you all for making this a lot of fun. Please share the laughs with friends and family and let’s keep it going!! Part III has a lot to live up too!
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