I’m also broke. So I’m sure that has something to do with it. Like Vera said, “stopping is easy” it’s the not starting again part that’s very hard. On all of my relapses when I placed that first bet I always felt I had control in my life again and if I won I’d do such and such and be a winner this time. Truth is that I won quiet often and was a decent gambler. The problem is that I am a compulsive gambler. I could have control for 200 straight days but on day 201 I would go crazy and loose 20k in a day. Basically what I’m saying is that no matter what plan I have in place or scheme I’ve figured out I always end up playing to long, chasing money, make poor bets, and end up losing more than I started with. If I could have walked away when I was up I would be up a lot. And knowing that usually makes me go back and try again. I know that I can’t win at gambling because I never know when to pull out. Most stock pickers decide before they buy a stock how much they want to make on it. Maybe 15% or so might be a goal. Us gamblers are crazy… We take $500 into a casino or online and want to make it turn into $2500. That’s a 400% increase over a short period of time. To have that happen in the stock market would be a huge big deal. But to us gamblers that seems natural. This is all the fog that gambling and other addictions pull over us to cloud us from the reality that gambling is very bad.
