Getting my first stake.

Posted on December 2, 2010 by Eli Radke • 4 Comments

We all have to start somewhere and our beginnings effect everyone in their own way.  It is not what happens to us, it is what we do with it.  I have talked a few times and if you check the about me page you know I took a bet to get my start with my own account.  Now, I can not stress enough that it was not a very smart thing to do.  I learned a lot from that experience.  I do not recommend doing it but I am not going to hide from it either.

This past week, a friend and trader Jeffrey Carter who also happens to have a great blog was in NYC earlier this week. Jeffery gave me an chance to interview him, you can read it here.  I do not remember telling Jeffery the story, maybe he read a story from ChicagoSean,  but he retold the story to Joshua Brown, Phil Pearlman and others.  Joshua gave me a chance to tell more of the story.  The best part is the end.

Once again, I would never do it again. I am making the best out of the opportunity and I got to talk with the people I look up to in the financial blogesphere.  I only have time to read about 10 blogs regularly and to be able to interact with 4 of the 10 people is a gift.

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  • http://intelfin.blogspot.com/ theback9

    your a class act

    • http://blog.mytradingnet.com Eradke

      Not sure if that is compliment or not but thank you.

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  • http://www.syntheticfriday.com SyntheticFriday

    Hey Eli, I know two people who’ve also taken the plunge into the mighty Chicago river for much, much less than $5k. I’d consider that a good trade, plus a couple years ago the river was upgraded from ‘toxic’ to ‘very polluted’, so put that in your win column as well.

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