Insane or Genius?

Depends on:

1) whom you are comparing with.

'the majority considers themselves normal, if you are not the majority or doing things differently from the majority, you are somewhat abnormal or insane. However if later the majority somehow realizes that your way of doing things is better follow the same, then you are a genius.
'you are the 20%, the rest are 80%.

2) the knowledge of your peers.

'when Galileo said that the world round, the people of his time thought he was crazy to sail beyond what they knew. They swear that if he sailed beyond that point, he would fall off the so-called 'cliff' of the earth. Now you try shouting 'the earth is flat' on the street today....
'you read a lot and put in lots of effort for this purpose. Knowledge gives you the confidence to venture into the risky paths. I guess that is what all professionals do.

3) the end result.

'the founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken was going around the country trying to get business partners to sell his fried chicken at the age of 80yrs old (if i am not mistaken). He failed many times for many years, still he did not give up. He could have died trying. If he failed, he would not be remembered. Or he would be known as the failure and crazy 80years old man going around selling fried chicken. Fortunately he succeeded. The rest is history...
'Your time will come. If this is a trade (not punting), then I am 90% sure you will be successful one day. Teh, investing trust in you is actually my first trade, not KNM.

4) the context ie the time and place the event takes place.

'a 'medium' shouting, chanting and jumping around at the temple is regarded as a holy sifu because he could communicate with the other world. Now if he performs this at the side of a busy highway, people will probably say, "Aiya so kesian, look at that crazy apek, talking to himself, just escape from the mental hospital, be careful when you drive past him in case he suddenly jump out, mati oohh..."

5) what you project to others and how others actually perceive you.

'two people standing at two different junctions with spoilt traffic lights doing the same thing, directing trafic. One wears a road traffic police uniform, the other wearing pajamas. I think this example is self explanatory.

Teh, so you see, genius or crazy is relative.

To me you are both.

What ever it is you are definitely not normal. But that is what makes you special.

Well, whatever I have said applies to me as well. For me to take heed of your teaching, i must be either crazy or i could be thinking that i have found an unpolished diamond.

If our venture is successful, then we will be on the way to a good life and able to provide meaningfully to our loved ones.

If we fail, you will be perceived as a con man (sorry to say) and I will be perceived as a stupid doctor who is crazy about getting rich and fell into the con man's trap.

So who we are is outcome dependent.

Crazy or genius? It doesn't matter for the time being...we just do what we are supposed to do according to how it must be done!

Profit is the bottom line.

All the best in our ventures!

Your guinea pig,

Julian.
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I was trying to clear my e-mail ... 2000+ un-read and another 2000+ read. So, I was deleting in hubdreds!! Then, I saw few(9 to be exact) e-mail from Julian Lim(JL) ... my ex-friend and first turtle!! Yup, the above e-mail dated 29th March 2009. It still hurt(a little) to re-read such e-mail, re-calling my efforts trying to share my knowledge about markets with a TOTAL zero-knowledge novice.

Anyway, everything is a history ... I picked myself up(I promised myself to give up teaching trading, then!! Scrapping off my plans to teach and focus in my own blog&trade). Today, I do have 4 batches with me ... and the journey of my teaching has just began. I am taking it cautiously ... step at the time. Due to my INSANITY, I could easily offend ANYONE without me realising it. Yes, I am weird ... I am not your normal person. Julian knew me for 5 years, our family quite close and he knew how 'abnormal' I am. How can I be your normal Maths lecturer when I am so dedicated with my students results. Hey, they dont give me the 'best lecturer' award for nothing, you know. Reward or not, I will still be the same ... determine NOT to be normal Maths lecturer. From there, he could see how I learnt and how I motivate myself to teach!! Yes, I am much more motivated than normal-human. It comes from PASSION. Do you have passion in things you are doing? If you do, then you will understand how I took my kap-cai ... travelling 3 times per week from kepong to cheras ... rain or shine ... to play bowling!!

Then, you will understand that in the midst my my VERY busy schedule, I could travel all the way to Port Klang just for a RHB's market talk? I cant explain to anyone how weird I am ... and to equate me with your normal 'teacher' could be ... errmm ... never mind.

The above e-mail came after I sms-ed him a simple line : Do you see me as a genius or merely insane? He came to me ... seeing me as a genius ... telling my wife how fortunate he is being 'associate' with me and learning from me!! Hey, I was merely 1 year+ in market and also started to move in HKSE and using of charts!! I was as a novice as he was when it comes to HKSE and TA. You may want to read my posts during Aug2008 to Feb2009, before he willingly became my guinea-pig. Haha .. I could laugh it off now, after it took me a few months of pain of losing a good friend. Till today, he ignored me and rejected my apologies(WHY AM I APOLOGISING? My wife asked!!).

When mor eof my tratles starting to know me in person, slowly they will realise that I am INSANE. I am absurd, stupid, abnormal ... weird .. unique ... different ... blah blah blah .. which being thrown to me for 30 years!! Since I was young, I m seen as different and rebellious. Yup, How can we do something extra-ordinary being those normal human?

Profit is the bottom line? Wrong mentality to be in market, friend. I kept reminding him that. Yes, profits WAS VERY EASY to come then. DO YOU KNOW WHY? Check the date again ... it is APRIL 2009, the begin of BULL running ... it is those time when ANYTHING you bought shooting 10-30% easily. It was then ... GREED seeping in and arguements started. Yup ... he deemed me as STUPID and kept telling me ... we PROFIT first, Teh ... learn later, ok? DAMN .. I was so upset with his mentality and told him off. HOW ON EARTH are you going to learn when ALL YOU THINK of is profit?? Excuse me ... do you know market will dive back too?

Damn ... I was proven wrong as market went all the way up ... for two years till recently July 2011. Gosh ... he must be laughing that I was so wrong that market will be down.

CT : He is one of my tratle who have been in market ... gained HUGELY only to lose it back. He shared with me his experiences and that should be shared with ALL in markets. Today, he is wiser .. after 10 years+ in markets. Today, he look into protect his capitals.  Yup, today he came to me to learn to trade in proper manner. He also recommended his friend to join my cohort-4. Thanks.

So, what Julian missed out about market is ... it goes up, it will come down ... and it will go up again. If you dont know how to ride on it, you will lose more than you profitted. Serious issue ... MAJORITY going into markets .. thinking of profitting. Serious ... ARE YOU SURE? THINK.

Today .. I am telling my tratles NOT TO LOSE MONEY ... as by not losing your capitals, we could take the opportunities when the moment is here. Yes, I will share with them those moments so that we profit together. PROFIT doesnt come easily at current markets as volatilities at a HIGH level. Novices will not even understand volatilities. Experienced traders LIKE such volatilities .... yes, I see such moment as opportunities. Do you?

Book : I will consider to write a book ... one day. Instead of your normal title how to be millionaire, I will write how not to lose money and splash more cold water into your get-rich-quick dream, investinig in markets!!

I still have 6 years to go ... oh boy, I have used up almost 4 years to learn about markets. I have NOT venture into future-markets or forex. Yes, that will be after 2012. I am REALLY stupid, too slow for many to understand WHY I am doing such. I am too abnormal for your likings and yes, I am admiting ... I am INSANE.

Staying out of my way might be a good advice? Haha. Yup, it has been SO MANY of times I 'chased' away my blog readers ... but those who have stayed for more than 2 years must be really ... INSANE too? Some told me they read my blog everyday!! Wah lau ... for what, I really dont know. If I privatised it, say ... pay me RM100 per year also these readers willing to pay, u know. So ... they are my followers or fans. Should I create a 'fans' club too? Haha ... will do that using FACEBOOK --- a fan club and with my VIDEO shooting of my classes to share with many 'outstation' loyal readers.

Remnant(a blogger too ... thanks again, bro.) was the person whom I appreciated as he was there to pull a crying-me out of the pain of losing Julian as my turtle. Yup, I had a bad experience with him, and for that ... it is difficult for me to trust myself to teach others MY SYSTEM of trading. I am so different ... insanely different.

Thank God for my uniqueness. We are all different ... lets embrace our differences, ok?

TEH