Summary: Halloween might be around the corner, sure, but of course, serial killers are no laughing matter. In Episode 567 of The Traders Podcast, your hosts Rob Booker and the producer Jason Pyles don’t intend to make light of how much traders have in common with serial killers, but as you will hear in this episode, the similarities are uncomfortably numerous… Serial killers can do unspeakable things and still feel totally “normal.” Much like traders, serial killers tend to live outside of typical societal norms (in some ways), and they do things that tend to separate them from others. And they are completely at peace with this fact. We trust that all our listeners are fine, upstanding contributors to your respective communities, but if you’d like to hear more out of morbid curiosity, listen to Episode 567! Thanks for joining us for The Traders Podcast. We release new episodes every Tuesday and Thursday. Subscribe free in iTunes so you don’t miss any new episodes! Links for this episode: Subscribe to Rob's YouTube channel here: <a href="https://youtube.com/robbooker" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://youtube.com/robbooker</a> Rob on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/robbooker" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@RobBooker</a> The Traders Podcast on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/traderspodcast" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@TradersPodcast</a> <a href="http://tfl365.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TFL365.com</a> <a href="http://www.traderinterviews.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Trader Interviews.com</a> Jason’s movie podcasts: <a href="http://moviepodcast.network/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Movie Podcast Network</a> A group of eight movie-related podcasts covering new movie releases and many genres: sci-fi, horror, western, etc. Full Episode Transcript: Rob Booker: Okie dokie artichoky. Mr. Pyles. Jason Pyles: Hey, Rob. Rob Booker: Have you watch Mindhunter on Netflix? Jason Pyles: No, I haven't, but I'm curious about it. Tell it. Rob Booker: All right, so Mindhunter, without spoiling anything, is the story of a fresh off the boat FBI agent who tightens his tie so tightly it's shocking that he can breathe. It's the story of how he ends up on the hunt for serial killers, which they call sequence killers because it's 1977, and they don't know the word serial killer yet, I guess. Didn't realize that. It is a David Fincher show actually. He directed the first episode and produced it, so you know it's kind of twisted. Jason Pyles: Yeah. Love it. Okay. Rob Booker: I love David Fincher, so anything that he produces I really enjoy. What the story ends up becoming is the story of how in order to catch a serial killer, you have to get into the mind of a serial killer. It brings to mind, for me anyway, this idea that in order to become a successful trader, you have to get into the mind of a successful trader. The mind of a successful trader, I'm not going to compare it similarly to serial killers, that would be terrible, but I'm just going to talk about some of the characteristics of serial killers and tell you how that's similar to traders. Jason Pyles: Okay. Great. Rob Booker: All right, so serial killer, in the show anyway, a sequence killer is unable to factor in or in some cases detect the emotions of others. I don't know if you would call it lacking empathy or just being completely narcissistic. Some of the best traders I've ever met, some of the traders that are willing to take the most risk and make the most amount of money in the shortest amount of time, if that's what we're talking about, really making a lot of money, they have some kind of way to turn off the connection between choice and consequence. These individuals in some cases sort of have this blank stare when someone else is criticizing their way of looking at the market. They are truly wrapped inside of their own world and their own point of view. It's not just that they disagree.
